The session focused on how k — 12 schools and school systems across the nation are using performance assessments to capture students» deeper learning skills and competencies, and the ensuing opportunities to use rich,
authentic student work generated from such performance assessments to inform higher education admission, placement, and advising decisions.
While there is still a place for traditional measures of knowledge and skills in an assessment photo album, greater attention must be given to gathering evidence of
authentic student work through performance tasks and projects.
Not exact matches
Today's culinary
students are learning about traditional and unconventional foodservice venues and
working with ingredients from around the world to gain an understanding of
authentic ethnic and ethnic inspired foods.
This unique overnight experience offers
students the chance to experience life science at a real
working quarter horse ranch in an
authentic Western town setting.
By allowing
students to
work on
authentic research projects, the YSP pulls back the veil on the reality of
working in the field of neural engineering.
She believes in being present, patient and
authentic in order to hold space for her
students in a safe and caring environment that promotes spiritual connection, physical activation, inner
work, growth, expansion and openness.
And
students are more likely to improve their
work when they know there is an
authentic audience for the
authentic work.
Files Included with this Lesson • Teacher Notes and Resources • Quick Getting Started Tutorial for
Students • 3 Lessons for Projects with grading rubric including: o Create a Web Site o Create a Blog o Create an Online Portfolio • List of project ideas for each assignment
Students love
authentic work and sharing their knowledge with the world is a great way to teach creativity, pride in quality and the importance of copyright.
The eight
students, regardless of their previous grades, all produced impressive, substantial, and
authentic work.
Help can include targeted, high - quality professional development; curriculum improvements; additional time for
student learning after school or in the summers; establishment of wraparound services, including community school models; redesign of schools to support personalization and more
authentic work in classrooms and internships; or pairing of struggling schools with successful ones serving similar
students.
Students saw the
work as
authentic.
During the agriculture unit,
students felt that the
work was
authentic and that their contributions to the solutions mattered.
Overall, teachers responded that they felt more comfortable allowing
students to direct the course of PBL and involve a wide range of experts and have more opportunities to share their
work with an
authentic audience for feedback.
Engaging
students in
authentic instances of thinking and
working scientifically may involve them
working on real - life problems such as exploring and protecting local environments, evaluating consumer products,
working with school gardens, or designing go - carts in an engineering competition.
In her synthesis of research on effective teacher professional development that has demonstrated a positive impact on
student outcomes, Timperley (2008) identified 10 key principles, including: providing teachers with opportunities to drive their own professional development, allowing teachers to
work collaboratively to learn and apply evidence based practices, establishing a professional learning culture that provides a safe and
authentic environment for professional enquiry and ensuring school leaders take an active role in developing professional learning, and maintaining momentum within schools.
When my
students started blogging, their creativity and productivity skyrocketed because they knew that their
work had the potential to be viewed quickly by an
authentic audience that mattered to them.
Don't let those tests hold you back from doing what you know
works for
students: in - depth,
authentic and relevant
work that engages all kids.
They are now starting a third phase, which they're calling EcoXPT, where they are
working with ecosystem scientists, teachers, and
students to find age - appropriate ways to add
authentic forms of experimentation into the mix.
Previous blog entries by my colleagues have given an overview of this process, as well as exploring how we include
student voice and
work with
authentic problems.
• An earlier study in Illinois found that
students exposed to more
authentic intellectual
work saw greater gains on the standardized tests than those not exposed to this content.
They're a great way to celebrate
student achievements, to create
authentic tasks with
work produced for a real audience, and to connect with parents and the community.
Upon completion of activities or projects,
students discuss, reflect, and celebrate — and it's
authentic celebration because every
student knows that the
work is
authentic.
The difference is that the
work goes outside the four walls of the classroom and is actually an
authentic situation where
students are engaged in real - world
work.
Particularly useful when exploiting
authentic materials, it can equally be applied to more traditional texts and, once embedded, enables
students of all ages to
work successfully with more complex source materials than would otherwise have been the case.
Start by providing
students with some choices in the types of projects and topics they will
work on, help them formulate a plan, offer training opportunities, tie that plan to presenting
work to an
authentic audience, and provide realistic feedback that helps them grow.
An innovative teacher, Fran coordinates actual and digital global projects with partnering classrooms across the globe to co-create and produce
authentic digital artifacts where
students think and
work creatively, then implement tech tools to demonstrate quality communication in studied target languages.
Once a
student creates
work of value for an
authentic audience beyond the classroom —
work that is sophisticated, accurate, important and beautiful — that
student is never the same.
In classrooms where
students engage with
authentic, rigorous
work, strategic support and modeling enable learners to progress past discomfort.
There's a lot of
authentic work that doesn't make for good assessment because it's so messy and squishy and it involves so many different people and so many variables that you can't say with any certainty, «Well, what did that individual
student know about those particular objectives in this complex project that occurred over a month?»
In that time, our approximately 20 teachers will continue to
work together to create
authentic learning experiences for Baltimore urban middle school
students.
In all of my years sitting in classrooms as a
student, in public schools that were highly regarded, I never once produced anything that resembled
authentic work or had value beyond addressing a class requirement.
Authentic audiences help
students connect their
work in the classroom to the real world.
(Researchers considered
authentic work to be assignments that called for
students «to formulate problems, to organize their knowledge and experiences in new ways to solve them, to test their ideas with other
students, and to express themselves using elaborate statements, both orally and in writing.»)
A three - year study of teaching and learning in more than 400 third -, sixth -, and eighth - grade classrooms in Chicago found that when
students were given writing and mathematics assignments calling for more
authentic work, they performed better on tests used to judge basic skills.
Researchers found that
authentic work, such as the architectural project completed by
students in Eeva Reeder's geometry class, yielded higher test scores for
students.
Because when we establish
authentic audiences for
students, they can see the purpose for their
work.
But there's a huge upside: Many teachers have used social media to share best practices, provide an
authentic audience for
student work, cultivate digital citizenship among their
students, and build more connected school communities.
Research by Fred M. Newmann and his colleagues on «intellectual
works» (previously called «
authentic achievement») showed how more real - world and complex performance assessment improves
student achievement as measured by national and state tests.
PBL requires
students to communicate their ideas through addressing local and global problems and engaging in the
authentic work of adults.
We conclude, therefore, [that] assignments calling for more
authentic intellectual
work actually improve
student scores on conventional tests.»
More
authentic work, say the report authors, benefits both low - and high - achieving
students.
In curriculum discussions, the term Friday Night Lights has become a metaphor for events through which
students make their
work public — publishing writing and other products for an
authentic audience to view.
«A capstone of this kind of project - based learning is to invite the
students who have produced the best
work to present it to an
authentic audience of leaders of thought and practice, and receive feedback from them,» Reimers says.
They want to let
student create their own video content for
authentic purposes and to feel pride in their
work.
Teachers and school leaders could facilitate this opportunity by: a) setting aside specific time for
students to engage in this form of design - based education, for instance, by establishing design and innovation labs; b) infusing in the curriculum opportunities for
students to establish links to this activity; c) structuring opportunities to inspire
students to study and solve a problem, for instance showcasing current and past
students» exemplary projects; d) providing opportunities for
students to present their projects to an
authentic audience of peers and members of the community; and e) not telling
students what projects to
work on by staying hands - off.
I like to use
authentic resources as much as possible and am a great believer in the positive impact of challenge
work for more able
students.
Authentic assessments are opportunities for
students to write for real audiences, share knowledge with a wide audience, and engage in the kind of
work that occurs outside the classroom.
Students need metacognition to connect content to objectives, whether that is progress in a GBL unit, or
work towards an
authentic product in at PBL project.
«When
students see the interconnectedness of the subjects they're learning, they feel it's more relevant, more meaningful, and more
authentic than if they're
working in isolation.»
Virtual reality is seen as having the potential to make these learning experiences even more
authentic, opening up exciting possibilities in the area of careers education, including helping to prepare
students for
work and university.