About+Authentic+Assessment

=About Authentic Assessment=



====An authentic assessment involves a task for students to perform and a rubric by which performance on the task is to be evaluated. If I were a driver's education instructor and I taught the skills required to perform well, I would not assess my students' performance by giving them a multiple choice test. I would put them out on the road and ask them to perform.====

Individual Rubrics for Specific Measures of Target Skills or Behaviors
===="Performance assessments call upon the examinee to demonstrate specific skills and competencies, that is, to apply the skills and knowledge they have mastered." -- Richard J. Stiggins -- (Stiggins, 1987, p. 34).====

Group Rubrics for Process and Content Expectations

 * ====What are specific content expectations?====
 * ====What process is followed for group work?====
 * ====What explicit behaviors are expected?====

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Sample Rubrics
=Affective Reflective Assessment Model=


 * The Audience will give feedback: **


 * What do like about what you see, hear, feel, etc. when you view the project?


 * What was it about the work (visual, auditory, emotional) that engages you, and why?


 * What, if any, personal learning happened for you in viewing/interacting with the project: content, technical issues, personal insight?


 * Did this project create/promote a desire in you to want to know more about its content/subject, or about the technology and technical skills that produced it? Why?


 * What was it that the technological tools made possible in the project that traditional instructional resources or strategies either couldn’t do at all, or not as well?


 * If you had one technical question you could ask the group, what would it be?

Each presenter will be asked to decide the aspect of learning that they wish to focus on in self-reflection:


 * Subject Matter Content: What was learned about the topic?


 * Technical Skills: What technical skills were developed in the process? What software, hardware and/or strategies did you learn to use?


 * Planning, Organization and Implementation: What are key skills and/or concepts for planning, organizing and implementing use of new tech tools? Questions for back home?


 * Personal Insights: What did you learn about your own learning? How can you generalize from your personal experience to the staff and students you will be working with?