Why has
authentic assessment become more popular in recent years?
Not exact matches
Currently, more school districts and universities are seeking
authentic measures of student learning, and performance - based
assessments have
become increasingly relevant.
When you provide students with opportunities to apply learning — especially through
authentic, personally meaningful activities — and then provide formative
assessments and feedback throughout a unit, facts move from rote memory to
become part of the memory bank.
Also, in my experience, performance tasks as
assessment have
become more common, but as teachers, we must ask ourselves if these tasks we are asking students to complete are actually
authentic?
Just as our forms of
assessment have
become more
authentic, so our means of providing feedback on students» projects should reflect the kinds of real - world feedback they will face.
The intention is to encourage more colleges to use these
assessments as they
become more widely accepted as a truly
authentic measure of what students know and can do, thus encouraging more high schools to engage in this kind of powerful learning and teaching.
Further, when students engage in this kind of metacognitive work in a meaningful way, our
assessment practices, overall,
become more
authentic.
Becoming reflective students and teachers with portfolios and
authentic assessment.
Garfield High School
became a leader in the movement for
authentic assessment in 2013 when the staff voted unanimously to refuse to administer the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test, and were joined by the parents and students in a mass opt out campaign.