Authentic assessment actually measures and rewards learning

1. Authentic assessment actually measures and rewards learning Authentic Assessment

2. We need our students to think. Not to be just good scribes or clones of us! Authentic Assessment

3. Make a question authentic • If we want to encourage learning we need to build assessment around individual students not whole classes. Authentic Assessment

4. Make a question authentic • place it in context • personalise it • don’t make it factual (unless facts are the issue) Authentic Assessment

5. Make a question authentic • ask for evidence • link it to real situations • ask for the ‘work trail’ Authentic Assessment

6. Make a question authentic • ask students to assess each other • expect self reflection and evaluation • get an authentic audience Authentic Assessment

7. Make a question authentic • Some learning models that facilitate the above are: • Problem Based Learning • Project Based Learning • Resource Based Learning Authentic Assessment

8. Make a question authentic • All of these entail active learning. • They are similar in nature just the central characteristic varies. • A problem to solve or a project to achieve…or the most generic…RBL…resources to use Authentic Assessment

9. Make a question authentic • None will be achievable without great attention to information skills, scaffolding, and workload. Authentic Assessment

10. Problem Based Learning http://www.cotf.edu/ete/teacher/teacherout.html Authentic Assessment

11. Project Based Learning http://www.odyssey.on.ca/~elaine.coxon/rubrics.htm Authentic Assessment

12. Resource Based Learning <http://www.lled.educ.ubc.ca/LIBE/LIBE1/IL/rbltask.htm> Authentic Assessment

13. What is resource based learning? A planned educational program that actively involves the learner in the effective use of a wide range of information resources in order to satisfy an information need. Authentic Assessment

14. Resource based learning is planned… • What is to be learned from this? • What teaching/learning strategies will be used? Authentic Assessment

15. Resource based learning is planned… • What resources meet the aims and match student styles and time constraints? • How can learning be assessed? • Who can help me plan, teach, assess this? Authentic Assessment

16. That actively involves the learner... • leads learner towards independence / interdependence • stimulates interest and creates enthusiasm about learning • encourages personal ownership of learning • helps reinforce learning skills Authentic Assessment

17. In the effective use of... • asking the right questions • planning wisely • finding and analysing information • evaluation and self reflection Authentic Assessment

18. Wide range of information resources • So what might they be? Authentic Assessment

19. The more that the teacher is the one source of information, the less need there is for a library, the Internet or any other source. And the less likely that the learner will make personal meaning from that information. Variety provides the potential for diversity and motivation. Authentic Assessment