Authentic Assessment and Rubrics

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Authentic Assessmentand Rubrics

• with Angela Stevens ?

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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
  (rubrics)

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Traditional vs. Authentic Assessment

• Traditional --------------------------------------
  ------- Authentic
• Selecting a Response -----------------------
  Performing a Task
• Contrived ----------------------------------------
  --------- Real-life
• Recall/Recognition --------------------Constructio
  n/Application
• Teacher-structured ---------------------------
  Student-structured

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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
Geometry You want to install new carpet and a baseboard in you room, but you need to know how much carpet and wood to purchase. Write a set of directions to follow, measure and calculate the square footage of each item needed, and determine the cost of carpet and pad (use the Internet to research).
History While studying the stock market and its effects on the economy, students will purchase a stock or stocks with 5000 and plot their earnings over a three month period.
Earth Science Participate in a lab to observe the effects that an iceberg has on the ocean and surrounding land.
Health Record and analyze your food consumption over a given amount of time.
English Research a career that interests you and report on the educational and job requirements, career outlook, job description, etc.
Fine Arts In small groups, process the black and white photos you took for the My Friends and Family assignment.
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Authentic Assessment Made Easy

• Create lessons and projects that tie to the
  students specialties
• Give students choices
• Allow students to grade themselves and each other
  using rubrics
• Have students keep track of the assignments they
  are most proud on in portfolios so they can
  assess their growth throughout the year

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How do you create Authentic Assessments?

• Identify what you want your students to learn.
• Create an assignment which incorporates these
  standards.
• Identify what makes a good assignment.
• Create a rubric with specifics and share with
  students.

• 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.

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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?

• Rubistar
• Rubrics from Kathy Schrock
• Rubrics 4 Teachers
• Project Based Learning Checklists

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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. (ES grade rubric)
• 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? Discussion?
• Use the remaining time to work on an authentic
  assessment or the creation of a rubric.