AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT
- a holistic approach to evaluate student's learning abilities
- considered varied aspects of student's knowledge and understanding, skills like social and problem-solving
- the student's are presented with a full array of engaging tasks making which requires the teacher to provide menaingful and relevant assessment
a form of assessment in which students are asked to perform real-world tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of essential knowledge and skills
usually includes a task for students to perform and a rubric by which their performance on the task will be evaluated.
HOW TO CREATE AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENTS
Identify the standards - statements what students should know and able to do.
Select an authentic task- find a way students can demonstrate that they are fully capable of meeting the standard.
Identify the criteria for the task - indicators of good performance on a task
Create the rubric - a scoring key
Performance Assessment
requires students to demonstrate that they have mastered specific skills and competencies by performing or producing something.
Characteristics
- various outcomes
- combining different skills
- encourage problem-solving and critical thinking
- focuses on both product and process
- build on pupils' prior experience
an assessment that requires an examinee to actually perform a task or activity, rather than simply answering questions referring to specific parts.
Examples : oral presentation, dance/movement, science lab demonstration, dramatic reading, enactment, debate, mu
Purpose : measures students' ability to apply the skills and knowledge learned from a unit or units of study
Portfolio Assessment
Purposes
✅ documentation of students' progress
✅ gives a profile learners' abilities in terms of depth, breadth and growth
✅ develops awareness of students' own learning
✅ can improve motivation for learning and achievement
✅ used to report to parents and administrators
Characteristics
✅ clearly defined purpose and learning targets
✅ preestablished guidelines for what will be included
✅ represents a selection of what the students believe are the best included from among the possible collection of things related to the concept being studied
✅ provides samples of the students' work which show growth over time
✅ student self-reflection and self-evaluation
the systematic collection of learner work (such as written assignments, drafts, artwork, and presentations) that represents competencies, exemplary work, or the learner's developmental progress.
Types of Portfolio
Documentation - collection of work over time showing growth and improvement reflecting students learning of identified outcomes
Process - demonstrates all facets or phrases of the learning process
Showcase - shows the best of the students outputs and products
Peer Assessment
To encourage collaborative learning and swapping ideas. This helps the students develop a number of critical skills. The learning process is enhanced and students gain a sophisticated grasp of the learning objectives.
involves students in the assessment process, with them taking on the role of teacher by reviewing work of other students against a set criteria.
To provide students with an overview of things to be considered by teachers when marking work. Because of this they can better understand the academic requirements. Students who assess work of their peers learn more effectively.
Self assessment
Online assessment
Self-assessment provides students with an opportunity to self-evaluate, or make judgments about their learning process and products of learning, based on criteria that they have agreed on with their instructor.
Before implementing peer /self assessment, consider the following
- Have a clear assessment criteria
- Develop the assessment criteria with students
- Use anonymous examples of work
- Vary the work they assess
- Model responses
- Allow time to respond
- Provide feedback on their peer/self-assessments
to support students to regulate their own learning by requiring them to monitor how they are working
encouraging them to modify their approach if something is not working
enhance students' self efficacy and support ownership of learning
the process used to measure certain aspects of information for a set purpose where the assessment is delivered via a computer connected to a network
Purpose
- to test the knowledge or learning of a student
- to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the student
Characteristics
- learner centered
- encourage self reflection
- include rubrics for discussion / assignments/ collaboration
- contextual and aligned to learning outcomes