Authentic Assessment | Origin: EL107
This is a general discussion forum for the following learning topic:
Designing Dynamic and Technology-Rich Learning Environments --> Authentic Assessment
Post what you've learned about this topic and how you intend to apply it. Feel free to post questions and comments too.
Authentic assessments are beyond accountability and encourage critical thinking.
Solomon and Schrum (2007) suggest that current educational trends based on standards and tests lean towards teacher-driven instruction while the required 21st-century skills of higher-order thinking skills, application of technology, adapting to change, and workplace skills (among others) require new methods and new assessment measures.
We have kept our educational process the same for quite some time, but our students are changing and thus our teaching strategies need to change. We need to incorporate different methodologies to help engage the different types of learners and also to help prepare them for their desire field of study.
The advantages of using this approach in teaching
Assessment allow students to demonstrate their learning outcomes.
the assessment helps students to evaluate their learning in orden to improve it and make accomodations to continue their learning process.
I have always been a firm believer in backwards design, authentic assessments, and more feedback than instruction. I will remember to alwasy assess in an authentic manner.
In this course I have learned the value of different test, and how it affects different students. I've also learned about the advantages of using holistic assessments.
In this module Ive reviewed assessment and ways to evaluate the process not only content and memorization.
Different ways of assessments can be done to holistically assess the student.
I learned that exist some skills to a cooperative communication strategies and your own direction in the academic skills.
There are different types of testing strategies such as content based testing, cloze testing, close test, and multiple choice tests.
I learned the use and value of holistic assessment. This takes into account more that just taking the results of certain tests to evalauate a students learning and content comprehension.
Authetic assessment involves a holistic approach. It needs to be learning outcome driven and involve critical thinking skills, Standarized tests, do not measure learner outcomes.
Cheryl
Although I caught the irony of this course breaking many of the "rules" it put forth (long webpages of text, traditional multiple choice testing, etc.), I can see that sticking with the way the courses are all set up is important as well. I like the idea of moving away from tests -- although I have a rare skill (or luck) with standardized tests, I have true test anxiety when it comes to tests I study for (I blanked on my name once taking an algebra final). I never thought a test provided good evidence of what I had learned and I loved graduate courses that had done away with them altogether.
Nancy Tosh
While I believe in this concept of holistic assessment, our program requires practice of standardized test taking (multiple choice) in preparation for the credentialing exam which is all multiple choice. I do like the idea of reviewing multiple choice tests and posing different statements, changing words in a question then asking students what the new "outcome" would be.
The holistic assessment approach for students is a great way to determine true learning of the curriculum. I will be implementing holistic assessment of the learning experience in my course.
This section made me think more about the course outcomes and how to get students to creatively get there.
As a medical instructor I try to bring real life into the instruction process as much as possible because this helps the students to relate and understand. I have also found that by incorporating real life scenarios in your responses in the discussion boards will help to keep the students engaged.
I learned that holistic assessments are beneficial because it has each student in mind.
I learned the benefits, and potential disadvantages, of using holistic assessments for student work.
