IMPLEMENTING ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT: OPPORTUNITIES AND OBSTACLES

ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT
1. Assessment in classroom
  1. Teachers make desition on classroom
  2. socio-economic status
  3. constructivist view
  4. performance on an ongoing basis
  5. what children know and can do
2. Promoting alternative assessment
  1. knowledge and experience with testing and classroom based assessment
  2. own instructional context
  3. own frame of reference
  4. help participants to develop knowledge
3. A tall order
  1. testing affects teachers, studemts, curriculum and instructional practices
  2. high stakes testing, alternative assessment and classroom
    1. situate students in a certain level of achievement
  3. procedures and underlying policies of standarized testing is esential
4. Theoretical framework
  1. leraners as constructors of knowledge
    1. individuals become proficient in learning by engaging in social interactions
    2. Student initiative, self-discipline and choice
    3. students self-evaluation and goals
    4. master of self learning and sense making
5. Authentic anf situated in classrooom
  1. classroom context and students progress
  2. environment and ongoing classroom practices
  3. specific feedback
  4. assessment integrated with instruction
OPPORTUNITIES
1. Possitive experiences
  1. Using reflective material, set goals and master evaluation, metacognitive awareness
2. Responsive instructions
  1. level of achievement of your students, abilities and capabilities, cultural responsive, holistic picture of your students, teachers help to understand rubrics
OBSTACLES
1. External constrains
  1. Lack of administrative and parental support with test scores
2. Internal constrains
  1. student motivation, classroom organization, time, money, resources, the way students and teachers see the classroom

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