Authentic Assessment Big Ideas - created from Mind Map

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Types: Authentic Assessments go by several names but are real world tasks that measure student ability to meet real world challenges.

Must haves: Successful authentic assessments need two parts: a task for students to perform and a rubric

Purpose of authentic assessments: To develop children's ability to become real world thinkers we must give them real world tasks to solve

How to create: Authentic assessments will drive your curriculum but take more planning to create than traditional

Planning time:Authentic assessments for emergent bilinguals take extra planning time

EB language needs: Authentic assessments for emergent bilinguals should be in the language of instruction

Performance based assessments

Alternative Assessments

Direct Assessment

Best type: Portfolio assessments are considered the most authentic of the performance based assessments.

Can be created at any grade level

Easy for classroom teachers to create

Most effective when regular classroom teacher and ESL teacher work together to create and analyze

Good tasks are those where students can choose how to show you what they have learned.

Rubrics need two parts.

Traditional shows they can answer questions

Authentic shows they can construct their own meaning of the information

EB students can utilize their culture and language to show understanding

Take your standards and work backwards from there

Standards cross grade levels and can give you ideas on assessment and rubric levels

Narrow them down to a specific observable skill or objective

What student choices can demonstrate understanding

Have clear and fair criteria for the task

Consider student developmental and performance levels

What oral language methods can be utilized by students

Only assess native language or L2 if that is what the instruction is in in

Language proficiency should be assessed apart from other subjects