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Reviewing a past evaluation process to ensure it was well-executed, reliable, and aligned with established criteria and standards.
High Quality Assessment
Guides learning during the instructional process providing feedback to improve understanding.
Assessment for Learning (Formative)
Overall learning and performance at the end of a specific period.
Assessment of Certification (Summative)
Ensuring that the way students are evaluated is fair and consistent across different classrooms.
Protect Academic Standard
Generate valuable insights for instructors to enhance their teaching methods, curriculum design, and instructional strategies.
Feedback for teaching
What is truly important.
Targets
A particular learning target
Methods
Keep assessment process manageable when dealing large number of students
Sampling
Randomly picking individuals, giving equal and fair chance to be chosen.
Simple Random Sampling
Picking kth person from a group after starting randomly
Systematic Sampling
Selecting and dividing population into subgroups based on specific characteristics for diverse representation
Stratified Sampling
Dividing the population into clusters, then entire clusters are randomly selected for evealuation
Cluster Sampling
Produce data that accurately reflect.
Accuracy (what educator looking to text)
Measure what it’s supposed to measure
Validity
Consistency and Stability of assessment results.
Reliability
5 things to consider for achieving High Quality Assessment
PTMSA
Purpose
Targets
Methods
Sampling Accuracy
The initial goals and intentions were clearly defined.
Purpose
What’s truly important.
Targets
Keep the assessment process manageable when dealing large number of students
Sampling
Method of sampling dividing population into subgroups based on specific characteristics for diverse representation.
Stratified Sampling
Enhancing teaching methods, curriculum design, and instructional strategies.
Feedback for Teaching
A particular learning target.
Methods
Assessment that produce data accurately reflects or what an educator is looking to test.
Accuracy
Assessment tool that actually measures what it’s supposed to measure.
Validity
Ensuring fairness and consistency across different classrooms.
Protect Academic Standard
The consistency and stability of assessment results.
Reliability
Keep the assessment process manageable when dealing large number of students.
Sampling
Method of sampling involves dividing the population into clusters.
Cluster Sampling
Provide feedback to improve understanding.
Assessment for Learning ( Formative)
Assessment that produce data that accurately reflects and what an educator is looking to test.
Accuracy
The application of essential knowledge and skills in real- world settings.
Authentic Assessment
What does authentic assessment help students develop?
Knowledge and skills in academic performance
Students ability to apply their knowledge and skills to authentic problems and situations.
Real world Context
Designed to measure students ability to apply their knowledge and skills to authentic problems and situations.
Real world Context
Getting students interested by giving them a reason to listen.
Audience Engagement
Assess student’s ability to apply standard- driven knowledge and skills to real- world challenges.
Performance Task
Serves as the facilitator in student- centered authentic assessment
Teacher
Empowering educators to provide impactful, engaging and applicable learning experiences.
Action- based
Measures an individual’s potential for creativity, defined as the ability to generate novel and useful ideas
Creativity
3 related terms to Authentic Assessment
(APD)
Alternative assessment
Performance assessment
Direct assessment
Provide impactful and engaging learning experience.
Action- Based
Their potential to generate novel and useful idea.
Creativity
Another term for authentic assessment?
Performance Assessment
It emphasizes real- world application rather than rote memorization.
Authentic Assessment
To capture their interest and attention during discussions.
Audience Engagement
The ability to apply knowledge and skills to solve real world problem
Authentic Assessment
The use and application of knowledge in diverse settings.
Authentic Assessment
Enabling students to contextualize their learning and apply knowledge and skills to everyday issues and probldms
Authentic Assessment
It involves addressing ill- structured, unpredictable challenges, which helps students rehearse for the complexities of working life.
Why use Authentic Assessment
Construct unique response rather than reselecting responses from pre-existing opinions, fostering higher order reasoning and creative thinking
Authentic Assessment requires students to do
Who demands universities to offer more relevant experiences through authentic assessment?
External stakeholders (industry groups and professional bodies)
Authentic assessment disrupt the traditional power balance in assessment by involving?
External markets and students
Calls for ‘sustainable assessment’ to equip learners with skills needed for today’s workplace and lifelong learning.
Boud and Falchikov ( authentic assessment)
What is the 1st principle of authentic assessment?
Focus on What Really Matters
What is the 2nd principle of authentic assessment?
Provide valid indicator
What is the 3rd principle of authentic assessment?
Use assessment to support learning
What is the 4th principle of authentic assessment?
Develop Assessment that used Teachers time
Clearly communicating expectations, involving students in the assessment process, and providing helpful feedback.
Use assessment to support learning
Through student peer and self- assessment practices it saves teacher’s time.
Develop Assessment that used Teacher’s Time
What types of assignments can be use as authentic assessment?
Projects
Plays
Portfolios
Assignments resembling real- world situations
To guide the development of authentic assessment in the classroom.
Purpose of the 5- Dimensional Framework for Authentic Assessment
A problem task that confronts students with activities carried out in professional practice.
Authentic Assessment Task
It asks students to demonstrate their knowledge and abilities in real- worl contexts
Authentic Assessment Task
To replicate the actual circumstances under which the knowledge and abilities under evaluation would be use in a work setting.
Physical Context
It incorporates social interactions and dynamics that mirror those found in real-life situations.
Social Context
To produce a quality product or performance that permits making valid inferences about the underlying competencies.
Assessment Result or Form
What are the 4 Elements characterizing an authentic assessment under Assessment Result or Form
Quality products or performance
Demonstration
Full array of tasks
Presenting works to others
What kind of judgement does authentic assessment require?
Criterion- referenced judgement
Refers to a realistic outcome, explicating characteristic or requirements of the product, performance, or solutions that students need to create.
Criteria and Standards
To asses higher-order thinking and application of knowledge.
Performance Assessment
What are the 5 Dimensional Framework for Authentic Assessment
APSAC
Authentic Assessment Task
Physical Context
Social Context
Assessment Result or Form
Criteria and Standards
It focuses on “How well can you use what you know?” rather than “ Do you know it?”
Performance Assessment
2 types of Performance Assessment
Process- Based Performance Assessment
Product- Based Performance Assessment
The application of knowledge and skills, not just reall or recognition.
Performance Task
Are performance task open- ended or closed- ended?
Open ended; they typically do not yield a single, correct answer
By presenting novel and and authentic contexts for performance.
Performance Task Authencity
Understanding via transfer, where students can apply their learning to new situations.
Performance tasks provide evidence of
Are performance task multi- faceted or single- faceted?
Multi-faceted; they involve multiple steps and can asses several standards or outcomes
By providing a vehicle for integrating subjects and weaving in 21st- century skills
Performance task integrate subjects and 21st- century skills
It assess whether students performance on the task will generalize to comparable tasks.
Generalizability
It asses whether the task is similar to real-worl situations
Authencity
How many foci should a performance task measure according to the principles?
Multiple Instructional outcomes, not just one
It ensure the task is fair to all students and avoids bias based on personal characteristics.
Fairness
It evaluates wether the task is realistically implementable in terms of cost, space, time and equipment requirements.
Feasibility
Any learning activity or assessment that asks students to perform to demonstrate their knowledge, understanding, and proficiency.
Performance Task
What should well- designed performance tasks be based on?
Course objectives and available resources
What are the 7 steps for developing performance task
Choose objective
Describe task completion
Provide instructions and context
Consider practical needs
Evaluate performances
Share feedback
Provide student choice
What does GRASPS stands for?
Goal
Role
Audience
Situation
Product
Standards and Criteria
There is no single, correct answer or response and the goal is to get students to think through a problem and present what they have learned.
Holistic Rubric
