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Mind Map by Alicia Crutchfield, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Alicia Crutchfield
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Authentic Assessment &
Emergent Bilinguals
- What is Authentic Assessment?
- Authentic Assessment is according to Jon Mueller,
"a form of assessment in which students are asked
to perform real-world tasks that demonstrate
meaningful application of essential knowledge and
skills."
- Also known as alternative assessments, performance
assessments, or direct assessments, Authentic Assessment
is essential in assessing a student's knowledge in a
particular area. It requires students to be able to put the
information they are learning to use in more meaningful
ways than a standardized assessment. It includes more real
world scenarios to apply their knowledge to.
- For example, when using authentic assessment
for a money based lesson: instead of a multiple
choice test identifying the money and how to
properly combine it-students might have a real
world scenario of a grocery store receipt where
they have to add the money and make sure it
equals out. Or how to give change by subtracting
money. It puts the lesson of money and the
combination of it into a real world, meaninful
application.
- Authentic Assessment is according to Jon Mueller,
"a form of assessment in which students are asked
to perform real-world tasks that demonstrate
meaningful application of essential knowledge and
skills."
- How's that different from what
is normally done in
classrooms?
- Most assessments you think or when you think of assessments are
known as Traditional Assessments. These assessments are your
multiple choice, fill in the blank, and true/false type
assessments.These are the most common type of assessment and are
generally used to recall information learned within the classroom.
- These types of test are usually memorized
facts about a lesson that can be put into an
assessment to recall this information such as
this multiple choice test:
- Most assessments you think or when you think of assessments are
known as Traditional Assessments. These assessments are your
multiple choice, fill in the blank, and true/false type
assessments.These are the most common type of assessment and are
generally used to recall information learned within the classroom.
- Authentic Assessment vs Traditional Assessment
- In the areas of these two types of assessment, they generally complement each
other, and while most would agree there's no right or wrong way to assess-that it's
knowing your students learning and testing abilities, it is usually a great idea to do
a mixture of these two assessments.
- By doing a mixture of these assessments, you are able to see the
whole learning spectrum. You can see not only the facts that the
students know, but also how they can apply that knowledge.
- What does using both look like? Looking back at the example of using grocery store receipts when
learning adding and subtracting money: you can provide the traditional assessment to check for
understanding of terms such as dollar, quarter, nickel, etc. and then provide the Authentic
Assessment of the grocery store receipts to check for application of that recalled information.
- In the areas of these two types of assessment, they generally complement each
other, and while most would agree there's no right or wrong way to assess-that it's
knowing your students learning and testing abilities, it is usually a great idea to do
a mixture of these two assessments.
- Why do we use Authentic Assessment?
- Authentic Assessment provides
directly measures what the students
are learning, it captures the
constructive nature of their learning,
and integrates their learning with
teaching and assessment.
- As stated previously, the top reason we use Authentic
Assessment is to gain the most realistic view of what our
students are learning.
- Authentic Assessment provides
directly measures what the students
are learning, it captures the
constructive nature of their learning,
and integrates their learning with
teaching and assessment.
- Why is this important to Emergent Bilinguals?
- Traditional Assessments are usually one size fits all, meaning they are
usually prepared to fit one language, and provide each student with
the same questions. This can become frustrating for students, such as
Emerging Bilinguals who are just beginning to speak a language.
Traditional Assessments may not be translated, and if they are
translated could be in a different dialect than every different language
in the room.
- This is where Authentic Assessments are
important. By providing Emergent Bilinguals
with Authentic Assessments, we are giving
them the opportunities to show their
knowledge in ways they understand it best.
They also providing ongoing, regular, often,
continual snapshots to give a more well
rounded view of the learning taking place.
this is important to EB students so that
educators can see both how well they are
learning the content taught but also how
their English language is growing.
- Traditional Assessments are usually one size fits all, meaning they are
usually prepared to fit one language, and provide each student with
the same questions. This can become frustrating for students, such as
Emerging Bilinguals who are just beginning to speak a language.
Traditional Assessments may not be translated, and if they are
translated could be in a different dialect than every different language
in the room.
- What does this look like for assessments for Emergent Bilinguals?
- This means for Emergent Bilinguals, educators need to provide standard
based authentic tasks that include criteria and rubrics but are meaningful
to helping that student apply their knowledge.
- Examples of Authentic Assessments for Emergent Bilinguals: picture cards, reading
in home language, pairing with students of the same language, giving descriptions
or instructions in their home language, and role playing to name a few.
- This means for Emergent Bilinguals, educators need to provide standard
based authentic tasks that include criteria and rubrics but are meaningful
to helping that student apply their knowledge.
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