IMPLEMENTING ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT: OPPORTUNITIES AND OBSTACLES

IMPLEMENTING ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT: OPPORTUNITIES AND OBSTACLES

1. ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT

   • Assessment in classroom
     • Teachers make desition on classroom
     • socio-economic status
     • constructivist view
     • performance on an ongoing basis
     • what children know and can do
   • Promoting alternative assessment
     • knowledge and experience with testing and classroom based assessment
     • own instructional context
     • own frame of reference
     • help participants to develop knowledge
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     • testing affects teachers, studemts, curriculum and instructional practices
     • high stakes testing, alternative assessment and classroom
       • situate students in a certain level of achievement
     • procedures and underlying policies of standarized testing is esential
   • Theoretical framework
     • leraners as constructors of knowledge
       • individuals become proficient in learning by engaging in social interactions
       • Student initiative, self-discipline and choice
       • students self-evaluation and goals
       • master of self learning and sense making
   • Authentic anf situated in classrooom
     • classroom context and students progress
     • environment and ongoing classroom practices
     • specific feedback
     • assessment integrated with instruction

2. OPPORTUNITIES

   • Possitive experiences
     • Using reflective material, set goals and master evaluation, metacognitive awareness
   • Responsive instructions
     • level of achievement of your students, abilities and capabilities, cultural responsive, holistic picture of your students, teachers help to understand rubrics

3. OBSTACLES

   • External constrains
     • Lack of administrative and parental support with test scores
   • Internal constrains
     • student motivation, classroom organization, time, money, resources, the way students and teachers see the classroom