Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Authentic Assessment vs. Traditional
Assessment
- Authentic assessment allows teachers to see direct evidence of understanding through real world tasks.
- Real World Tasks includes but aren't limited to:
Anmerkungen:
- reading with partners
retelling
role playing
giving descriptions
oral reporting to the whole class
debating
brainstorming
- Assessment drives curriculum
- How I will use authentic assessment in my class
- I plan on getting 3 different books in Spanish based off my students interests
- Let her select the one she wants to read.
- Then have her write about the elements of the story in Spanish or English or through illustration
- How to create authentic assessment
- Identify the standards
- Develop the task you want accomplished
- Criteria, or what is expected to be completed
- Rubric
- Initial Assessment Strategies:
- Legally obligated to do by the US Govt.
- No Child Left Behind 2001
- Civil Rights Act VI -1964
- Bilingual Education Act VII 1968
- Home language survey
- Parents are required to alert the school to any other languages spoken in the home other than English so educational adjustments can be made.
- Test in Home Langauge
- Gauges prior knowledge separately from language ability
- Formal tests or story retelling
- Educational Backgroud of the student
- Dates of previous school attendence
- life events
- grade level equivelnce
- Type of school previously attended
- Educational background of family members
- Important health in formation, like allergies
- Authentic Assessment is also called Informal assessment
- Ongoing tracking of students progression
- Real world tasks are informal assessments
- Traditional Assessment is a uniform way for students to demonstrate what they know through a narrow scope typically mandated by the district or school.
- Traditional assessments examples are teacher created tests or standardized tests
- Curriculum drives assessment
- Traditional assessment in standardized test form data can be used to determine funding
- My Thoughts:
- Authentic assessment is the best way to assess what students know
- Real world experience is the best indicator of understanding
- Importance of authentic instruction
- Research backed- Ken Goodman, Yetta Goodman, Stephen Krashen, Lev Vygotsky, etc
- Traditional Assessment has more clout, because it reduces what students "know" to a score
- This can be done on a larger scale that authentic assessment- example ACCESS testing
- Finding the balance
- Figuring that out