Authentic Assessment

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Authentic Assessment

• Kellie Dimmette
• CI 5592

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Pretest on EvaluationPart I

1. C D
2. B C
3. T
4. Valid, reliable
5. T
6. T
7. T
8. A B
9. C
10. B

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Pretest on EvaluationPart II

1. What do you think is the ultimate purpose or goal
   of testing in schools today? What do you think
   should be the purpose or goal of testing in the
   schools today?
2. How can teachers best use test results?
3. How can teachers properly prepare students to be
   testwise in the classroom?
4. What do you think would happen if all paper and
   pencil tests were outlawed and replaced by
   portfolios, learning logs, and student products
   as means of evaluation?
5. What are the grading practices in your school and
   are they consistent with your teaching philosophy?

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Types of Assessment

1. Summative Assessment conducted for the purpose
   of assigning a grade.
2. Formative Assessment conducted to help diagnose
   classroom learning problems and suggest ways to
   overcome them.

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What is Authentic Assessment?

• authentic means that something is genuine,
  real, and true
• Requires that students engage in real-life
  problems, issues, or tasks for an audience that
  has consideration for what the students have
  learned.
• Students should be asked to demonstrate their
  control over the knowledge being taught by using
  the information that reveals their level of
  understanding.
• Addresses educational goals and groups of
  learning objectives.
• Places a greater emphasis on problem-solving,
  critical thinking, comprehension, reasoning, and
  self-reflection.

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Forms of Authentic Assessment

• Portfolio Assessment
• Anecdotal Records/Reflections
• Student-led Conferences
• Rubrics
• Using Multiple Intelligences
• Unstructured Oral Activities
• Unstructured Written Activities
• Cloze Test
• Peer Evaluation

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Portfolio Assessment

• A portfolio is a collection of work that
  demonstrates students efforts, progress, and
  achievements.
• Three Main Types
• Product Portfolios-contain products that are
  judged to be the students best work.
• Process Portfolios-contain work that produce
  evidence of how the student work evolved and made
  corrections.
• Progress Portfolios-compare the same work samples
  done over time to show improvement and growth.

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Anecdotal Records/Reflections

• Assessment occurs when the teacher observes his
  or her students and takes notes on authentic
  experiences to determine literary development.
• Provides the teacher with evidence of childs
  learning needs.
• Great tool to use to communicate learning to
  parents.
• Observations must be organized to be useful to
  the teacher.

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Student-led Conferences

• A conference with parents led by the student.
• Teacher is the facilitator.
• Students lead the parents through a discussion of
  their work, typically using a portfolio they
  created.
• Places more responsibility on the student because
  the student must be prepared and reflective of
  his or her work.

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Rubrics

• A scale that rates students performance at
  different levels.
• They do not look for the presence or absence of
  criteria.
• Identifies what is needed in order for a child to
  improve in a particular area.
• Can be given to students before the assignment is
  completed so students know expectations.
• 2 Types
• 1. Holistic-gives a single score to an
  entire product.
• 2. Analytic-divides the product into
  parts and each part is addressed separately.

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Multiple Intelligences

• Excellent way to differentiate instruction and
  give students authentic tasks.

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Other Forms of Assessment

• Unstructured Oral Activities games, debates,
  brainstorming, and story telling
• Unstructured Written Activities logs, journals,
  and writing samples
• Cloze Test measures reading comprehension by
  having students fill in the blanks of a text they
  have been studying.
• Peer Evaluation students work together not
  competing for grades to reach a goal or task
  assigned by the teacher and then evaluate their
  work.

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Circle of Knowledge Activity

• Prompt to Brainstorm
• Name favorite characters from books you have read.

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Philosophy and Goals

• Now that you have learned about authentic
  assessment establish some goals for your
  classroom. Make decisions on how you can
  implement authentic learning and assessment in
  your classroom to promote learning and reach all
  your students.