Authentic Assessments - created from Mind Map

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What is an authentic assessment?

How to create an authentic assessment?

How does this applies to ESL?

Examples of Authentic Assessments:

Purpose of Authentic Assesments

Traditional assessments usually mean regurgitating information onto a written test. However, authentic assessments see if students are able to actually use the information in a real-world purposeful way.

This allows the students to demonstrate and preform their knowledge, versus studying needed answers for the test.

Focuses on real-world applications

"Working Backwards"

Ask yourself what you want your students to eventually know or how to do

Ask yourself how can they get there, then develop a plan to achieve the overall big picture

With any student, a traditional test does not fully show the teacher what the student actually knows. This allows for the student to truly demonstrate their ability and knowledge.

Authentic assessments are well-rounded and can give the teacher true insight to the student's knowledge.

These can assess multiple aspects of the student all at once. The student can be sharing content he/she knows and speaking at the same time. This gives the teacher an assessment on two different things or more.

Minimizes barriers for Emergent Bilingual students. For example: If a student cannot read/write in English yet, then maybe he/she can express through oral or physical assessments.

Project-Based Learning

Having the student teach the class

Oral Reports

Presentations

Roleplaying

Allows teacher to see what the student does know, versus what he.she does not know

This is a practical way to assess the knowledge a student holds

This gives learning a purpose since the student sees a real life connection