Assessment of Learning 2 Submitted By:: - Valerie Dable
Assessment of Learning 2 Submitted By:: - Valerie Dable
Assessment of Learning 2 Submitted By:: - Valerie Dable
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Authentic assessments mirror the real world as much as possible. This means using
real situations and roles to design tasks for students to demonstrate their learning. Look
back at that science standard. Writing a multiple choice question to assess it is
feasible, but you would probably lose parts of the goal. For instance, if you gave
students the properties of different materials and asked them to choose which was best
for the intended purpose, you would probably lose the analysis of the raw data from
testing.
An authentic assessment, on the other hand, might ask students to take on the role of
scientists looking for a metal that is malleable enough to use in high speed internet
wiring. In this task, students would analyze the data from scientific tests to determine
which metal (if any) is most appropriate for creating internet service wires. Students
would have to make a plan for how to analyze the data and explain their reasoning
about their final decision. Just like in the performance tasks, students would go through
the full performance of the standard. Just as important, they might have to try out
different approaches to figure out which metal is best, deal with ambiguity, and maybe
even work collaboratively with their peers.
MUSIC Define what music means in the program and create tools to
look at students work.