Authentic Assessment and ELLs

Authentic Assessment and ELLs

1. What Is It?

   • Traditional
     • Goal is for students to possess a certain body of knowledge and skills
     • Multiple choice, fill in the blank, true false, recall oriented
   • Authentic
     • Meaningful
     • Performing real world tasks

2. Why use AA?

   • We don't just want students to know facts and content. We want them to know how to use their knowledge.
   • Fits with the well researched constructivist model of teaching and learning
   • Ingregation of teaching, learning, and assessment: Within the assessments, students are learning and demonstrating their ability to apply concepts, as the teachers are facilitating.
   • Allows for multiple ways of demonstrating knowledge that plays to everyone's strengths

3. How do you Implement?

   • 1. Standards: What should the students know and be able to do
   • 2. Authentic Tasks: Determine what tasks will demonstrate if the students have met the standards.
   • 3. Criteria: What does good performance look like?
   • 4. Rubric: For providing what is expected for minimum levels of performance and for providing feedback and providing information for adjusting instruction

4. Authentic Tasks for ELLs

   • Constructed Response: Concept maps, making predictions, journal response, homework reflections
   • Product: Projects, design of an advertisement, etc, timelines, map construction, poster of a literary character analysis
   • Performance: Skits, role plays, debates
   • Create assessments that lean toward: Performing a task, real-life, requiring application, student-structured, providing direct evidence

5. Why Use AA with ELLs?

   • Fits with constructivist model of learning
   • Allows students to demonstrate what they know in various forms without being consistently at a disadvantage in traditional testing by a lack of academic English.
   • Allows for assessing meaningful learning within scaffolded instruction, which we know is what ELLs need to access grade level curriculum.
   • Can lower the affective filter for ELLs, because Authentic Assessment does not rely solely on traditional multiple choice and true/false, etc. tests. They have the chance to feel success and use their strengths.
   • Provides a better picture of what meaningful skills the students actually have vs. what they may be able to recall in English on a traditional test.

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