Authentic Assessment & Emergent Bilinguals

Designing an Authentic Assessment
1. Identify what Students should know
  1. Establish criteria for demonstrating learning
    1. Select an Authentic task in which students can demonstrate their knowledge
      1. Look for patterns across the assessment results
        Plan future teaching based on assessment results
    2. Holistic Rubrics focus on the whole of the project. Analytic rubrics break the assessment into parts to evaluate.
2. Real LIfe Application: Upon administering an assessment in which students chose a way to show their learning, the teacher notices that some students were not grasping the core concept while others were secure in their knowledge. The teacher can then plan a re-engagement lesson that supports the developing students while pushing the development of the secure students.
Types of Authentic Assessment & Emergent Bilinguals
1. Portfolios are comprehensive, predetermined,, systematic,, tailored to standards, and authentic.
2. Performance Based Assessments can show each student''s development over time. They can include drafts, modifications, and final product. Over the course of a unit, the teacher can use observation checklists and rubrics to evaluate student learning.
3. Teachers can assess EB's language development by observing them retelling with a partner, reading with a partner, reading instructions, playing math games, etc.
4. Teachers can also scaffold content based assessments by allowing EBs to draw, orally tell, or record their learning instead of only writing in English.
5. Real LIfe Applicatoin: EBs are encouraged to utilize thieir native language when completing an assessment about their own cultural traditions. Some students chose to record themselves talking in their home language and others chose to translanguage within a created book.
Traditional VS Authentic Assessment
1. Traditional: Indirect evidence Tests for recall Teacher Focused Select a response
2. Authentic: Direct Evidence Tests for Understanding Student Centered Multiple Ways to Show understanding
  1. Authentic assessment provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate their learning through a real life task as opposed to through a pen and paper, selected-response test. Authentic assessment knows that students may have learned much more than a teacher-derived test would allow them to show. Authentic assessment drives curriculum.
3. Real Life Application: A teacher determines that she wants students to demonstrate the ability to count. Instead of administering a mutliple choice test, she decides to have students count for authentic purposes like taking attendance or figuring out how many forks are needed for lunch.
Authentic Assessments are a direct measurement of student learning
1. Teaching cannot be given from the teacher to the student. Students must instead construct meaning for themselves. Traditional assessments show what information students have memorized that the teacher deemed important.
2. Students can demonstrate what they have learned directly by completing a meaningful task.
3. Real Life Application: Students have the option to showcase their learning about polar animals by building a model of their animal and creating a video that talks from the animal's point of view. They may also choose to write a book, create a presentation, or plan and record a video. Students are given a rubric before completing the project.
Authentic Assessment and Emergent Bilingual Learners
1. Emergent Bilingual students need support, differentiated instruction, and authentic assessments to adequately gauge their learning.
2. Portfolios are a way to provide a snapshot of learning across time. Emergent bilingual students can benefit from the opportunity to demonstrate their learning in an authentic way.
3. Emergent Bilinguals should be given assessments in their home language in order to determine what they truly know.
4. By providing EBs with authentic assessment, teachers are able to avoid standardized tests that may not be culturally sensitive or relevant to students.
5. Authentic assessment allows teachers to identify and build on student strengths.
Integration of teaching, learning, and assessment
1. Authentic assessment serves as an opportunity for students to construct meaning.
2. When students are completing a meaningful task, they are still learning.
3. What is seen in the authentic assessment can drive the subsequent learning.

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