performance model of pedagogy

While thinking about the topic of assessment I recalled a story from the Ramayana as told by my grandmother. Since I am recalling this story from memory, allow me at the outset to apologize to scholars of the Ramayana if the way I remember the story does not quite find a match in literature. Without digressing further let me tell the story and then follow it up with why I feel it is relevant in the context of educational assessment. In their search for the abducted queen Sita, a group of Vanaras reached the southern seashore.