Authentic Assessment & Emergent Bilinguals

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Why using Authentic Assessment is important in the assessing of Emergent Bilingual students.
Alicia Crutchfield
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Authentic Assessment & Emergent Bilinguals
  1. What is Authentic Assessment?
    1. Authentic Assessment is according to Jon Mueller, "a form of assessment in which students are asked to perform real-world tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of essential knowledge and skills."
      1. Also known as alternative assessments, performance assessments, or direct assessments, Authentic Assessment is essential in assessing a student's knowledge in a particular area. It requires students to be able to put the information they are learning to use in more meaningful ways than a standardized assessment. It includes more real world scenarios to apply their knowledge to.
        1. For example, when using authentic assessment for a money based lesson: instead of a multiple choice test identifying the money and how to properly combine it-students might have a real world scenario of a grocery store receipt where they have to add the money and make sure it equals out. Or how to give change by subtracting money. It puts the lesson of money and the combination of it into a real world, meaninful application.
        2. How's that different from what is normally done in classrooms?
          1. Most assessments you think or when you think of assessments are known as Traditional Assessments. These assessments are your multiple choice, fill in the blank, and true/false type assessments.These are the most common type of assessment and are generally used to recall information learned within the classroom.
            1. These types of test are usually memorized facts about a lesson that can be put into an assessment to recall this information such as this multiple choice test:
            2. Authentic Assessment vs Traditional Assessment
              1. In the areas of these two types of assessment, they generally complement each other, and while most would agree there's no right or wrong way to assess-that it's knowing your students learning and testing abilities, it is usually a great idea to do a mixture of these two assessments.
                1. By doing a mixture of these assessments, you are able to see the whole learning spectrum. You can see not only the facts that the students know, but also how they can apply that knowledge.
                  1. What does using both look like? Looking back at the example of using grocery store receipts when learning adding and subtracting money: you can provide the traditional assessment to check for understanding of terms such as dollar, quarter, nickel, etc. and then provide the Authentic Assessment of the grocery store receipts to check for application of that recalled information.
                  2. Why do we use Authentic Assessment?
                    1. Authentic Assessment provides directly measures what the students are learning, it captures the constructive nature of their learning, and integrates their learning with teaching and assessment.
                      1. As stated previously, the top reason we use Authentic Assessment is to gain the most realistic view of what our students are learning.
                      2. Why is this important to Emergent Bilinguals?
                        1. Traditional Assessments are usually one size fits all, meaning they are usually prepared to fit one language, and provide each student with the same questions. This can become frustrating for students, such as Emerging Bilinguals who are just beginning to speak a language. Traditional Assessments may not be translated, and if they are translated could be in a different dialect than every different language in the room.
                          1. This is where Authentic Assessments are important. By providing Emergent Bilinguals with Authentic Assessments, we are giving them the opportunities to show their knowledge in ways they understand it best. They also providing ongoing, regular, often, continual snapshots to give a more well rounded view of the learning taking place. this is important to EB students so that educators can see both how well they are learning the content taught but also how their English language is growing.
                          2. What does this look like for assessments for Emergent Bilinguals?
                            1. This means for Emergent Bilinguals, educators need to provide standard based authentic tasks that include criteria and rubrics but are meaningful to helping that student apply their knowledge.
                              1. Examples of Authentic Assessments for Emergent Bilinguals: picture cards, reading in home language, pairing with students of the same language, giving descriptions or instructions in their home language, and role playing to name a few.
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