Authentic Assessment and Rubrics

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Authentic Assessmentand Rubrics

• with Angela Stephens ?

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What is Authentic Assessment?

• A form of assessment in which students are asked
  to perform real-world tasks that demonstrate
  meaningful application of essential knowledge and
  skills
• Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology, North
  Central College, Naperville, IL

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Basic Elements of Authentic Assessment

• Requires students to develop responses rather
  than select from predetermined options
• Elicits higher order thinking in addition to
  basic skills
• Directly evaluates holistic projects
• Synthesizes with classroom instruction
• Uses samples of student work (portfolios)
  collected over an extended time period
• Stems from clear criteria made known to students
  (rubrics)
• Allows for the possibility of multiple human
  judgments
• Relates more closely to classroom learning
• Teaches students to evaluate their own work

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Traditional vs. Authentic Assessment

• Traditional --------------------------------------
  ------- Authentic
• Selecting a Response -----------------------
  Performing a Task
• Contrived ----------------------------------------
  --------- Real-life
• Recall/Recognition --------------------
  Construction/Application
• Teacher-structured ---------------------------
  Student-structured
• Indirect Evidence --------------------------------
  - Direct Evidence

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What does Authentic Assessment look like?

• An authentic assessment usually includes a task
  for students to perform and a rubric by which
  their performance on the task will be evaluated.

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Examples
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How do you create Authentic Assessments?

• Identify your standards for your students.
• For a particular standard or set of standards,
  develop a task your students could perform that
  would indicate that they have met these
  standards.
• Identify the characteristics of good performance
  on that task, the criteria, that, if present in
  your students work, will indicate that they have
  performed well on the task and have met the
  standards.
• For each criterion, identify two or more levels
  of performance along which students can perform
  which will sufficiently discriminate among
  student performance for that criterion. The
  combination of the criteria and the levels of
  performance for each criterion will be your
  rubric for that task (assessment).

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Your turn

• Get with a partner or small group and brainstorm
  a few authentic assessments you could implement
  in your classes and then choose someone from your
  group to share two of them with the whole group.
• 10-15 minutes

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Assessing the Assessment

• What is a rubric?
• A scoring scale used to assess student
  performance along a task-specific set of criteria

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How do you make a rubric?

• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word
• http//rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

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More info about rubrics

• Share rubric with students when you give
  assignments.
• Let students practice grading their own
  assignments and classmates assignments using
  rubrics.
• Model how to use rubrics with students.
• Let students help create the criteria for
  rubrics.

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Works Cited and Sources

• http//jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox
  /index.htm
• http//www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/assess.shtml
• http//www.funderstanding.com/authentic_assessment
  .cfm
• http//rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
• http//intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Assessments/Ideas_an
  d_Rubrics/Rubric_Bank/rubric_bank.html

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Time out

• Questions?
• Use the remaining time to work on an authentic
  assessment or the creation of a rubric.