Completing an authentic assessment well depends on exploration and mastery of the tools, and skills for using them, which are essential to the unique tasks for each project.
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AAQ Prereq 7 – Rigor
Authentic assessment takes on rigor when teachers refuse to accept sub-standard submissions, push for high-level thinking instead of easy solutions, and ask questions to extend the exploratory process.
AAQ Prereq 6 – Open and Outside the Classroom
Open-ended assessments allow students to: 1) explore their unique interests; 2) capitalize on contacts and experiences; and 3) try a "professional" venture before making a long-term commitment.
AAQ Prereq 4 – Engagement
Authentic assessment motivates learners to persist through struggle with challenging tasks in order to reach a final product that exceeds their expectations because they are thoroughly engaged in the work.
AAQ Prereq 2 – Autonomy
Autonomous choices and exploration are essential to authentic assessment because they approximate the demands students face in the future as they become self-determined individuals through practice.
AAQ Experience: The Authentic Assessment Model
Authentic assessments begin with CARE - Content through context, Autonomy, Realism, and Engagement, but that's only the beginning. Selecting content that gains meaning from its context is essential to a truly authentic learning experience.
What’s your AAQ? (Authentic Assessment Quotient)
Reflection on the authenticity of assessment provides critical opportunity for meeting goals.
Vetting Assessment
Quick and easy test-making is tempting, but faulty. There is no substitute for backward planning and minute, intentional selection of questions to match goals and content styled to answer those questions.
Why Grade?
Applying numeric or letter grades to formative assessment, and especially the recording of it in a gradebook, is a profound waste of teacher time, which could be better spent helping those who struggle.
H5P: Empowering Educators with Interactive Learning
Create custom learning tools to empower responsive learning activity from students on every lesson.
EmpowerED 