Building Authentic Assessments

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Authentic Assessments

Identify Essential Criteria

Define Relevant Tasks

Identify Learning Targets

Encourage Creativity

Develop a Rubric

General Setup

Requiring application of learning to a new situation

Performance Tasks

Research

An authentic assessment:

• is realistic.
• requires judgement and innovation.
• requires students to apply content in a meaningful way.
• allows opportunities to practice, consult resources, get feedback and refine final product.

Presentations

Projects

Identify Learning Targets:

Develop A Rubric

Define Relevant tasks & Essential Criteria

Rubrics are a great way to quickly assess student work in comparison to the desired learning targets. Provide the rubric when originally assigning the assessment.

Learning Targets are concrete goals written in student-friendly language that clearly describe what students will elarn and be able to do by the end of a class, unit, project, or course. Objectives- "I am going to teach this today" Learning Target- "I am going to learn this today"

By Identifying criteria for success, students know exactly where they are and where they need to go inorder to be successful.

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Encourage Creativity

Letting learners use their creativity to demonstrate their understanding will help with engagement and deepen learning opportunities.

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Dream House

You get to design the blueprints of a house

Apply your knowledge of measurement, scale, area and perimeter to develop your blueprint.

Requirements

• Your house may not be a square
• Have Fun and be Creative

• Your house must have a total of 1800 square feet inside.
• Your house must have at least 4 different identified spaces

• All walls need to have measurements labeled
• Each space needs to be labeled with a name and the area

Regions of the U.S.

Demonstrating understanding through exploration and story telling

Design your on Cross-Country Exploration!

• You much visit at least one city in each of the four regions
• Outline stops you will make while at each city
• Your stops should highlight key components of the region (Land features, tourist attractions, crops, etc)

• Choose a method for presenting & Create! (Scrapbook, essay, travel brochure, PPT presentation, Interactive Graphic, video)

4th Grade Challenge

Expanded into a Formal Assessment

Stop Animation Video

PPT Presentation

Storybook

Providing Suggestions

• Share ways students may want to demonstrate their understanding
• Provide examples if possible (even if its for another assignment)
• Encourage Creativity and trying something new
• Emphasize quality over quantity

Poster

Essay

Case Study or Senerio

Outline of Ideas/ Process

Drawing/ Graphic Organizer

News Report Video

Identify Relevant Tasks and Success Criteria

Example Learning Target

I can analyze and respond to an emergency situation when first on scene.

• Identify how you want learners to demonstrate their knowledge (Scenario, Research, Model, Discuss, etc)
• Identify What does quality look like with this task?
• Describe what the learners need to know, do, and understand to demonstrate their learning
• Design with the UDL principles of Representation, action and expresstion, and engagement

Example

• Identify the Emergency Situation
• Describe the steps of a first responder
• Check the scene for safety
• Look, Listen, and Feel
• If no pulse, begin CPR
• If there are bystandards ask them to call 911 and get AED
• Continue CPR until EMS arrives.
• Explain the importance of the first responder

Viewpoint Project

Students Choose a viewpoint to construct an argument and support their viewpoint with evidence.

• A proposal has been made to construct a new hotel near an oceanside location.
• Students use information learned about mangroves, sustainable practices, resource use & preservation, and human impacts to choose a career role.
• In the viewpoint of their chosen career, learners explore resources to collect information and form an argument to be presented at the next "Town Hall Meeting"

Shout out to the Marine Biology Teachers!

• Student Led / Teacher Facilitated
• Incorperates Voice and Choice
• There is NOT one correct answer, but requires explanation and development of ideas to demonstrate understanding.

Criteria of Strong Learning Targets

• Derived from Standards
• Written in student-friendly language "I can..."
• Measurable
• Use of Concrete, assessable verbs (eg., Identify, compare, analyze)
• Specific, refers to the particular context of a lesson, project, or case study
• Focused on intended learning... Not intended Doing.

Example

I can analyze and respond to an emergency situation when first on scene.

Innovations that Changed the world

During the Industrial Revolution, many innovative ideas were turned into functional tools. For this assignment, you will research an innovation that helped shape the United States as we know it today.

Requirements

• Identify the Innovation and describe its purpose

• Explain the impacts the innovation had during the Industrial Revolution
• Analyze how the innovation evolved and shaped present day in the United States.

Presentation ideas

• Slides such as PPTs
• Brochure
• Essay

• Audio Recording
• Storybook
• Poster

Designing a Rubric

• Each Identified Criteria becomes its own scoring category
• Indicate the elements that are meeting expectations, needs improvement, and missing all together.
• Provide opportunity for Feedback, correction, and mastery learning.

Literature Assessments

Choose assessment forms that allows students to show their creativity while demonstrating they have met the learning targets.

These assignments may provide opportunity for student choice while achieving the same learning targets, criteria, and using the same rubric;

• Character Development Analysis
• Diary Entry for a Character
• Poem, Play, or Dialogue
• Compare a Character to a Current Famous Figure

• Write an Alternative Ending
• Book Review
• Executive summary
• Write a Newspaper Article about an important event in the book.

Analyze Ecosystem Impacts

Choose an organism in the food web to "go extinct". Use terms and concepts learned to analyze the changes that would be seen in the ecosystem over time.

• Identify organisms that would initially increase and decrease. Explain why
• Describe how these initial increase or decrease in population may change after a period of time.
• Hypothesis what this ecosystem would look at after 10 years.
• Explain the importance of biodiversity within an ecosystem

Consider providing

• A rubric or checklist
• Draft submission dates
• Ecosystem choices
• Multiple means for representation (Storybook format, essay, diagram, timeline)

First Responder

You are the first person to arrive at this emergency scene. Create a presentation that outlines the steps you will take as the first responder.

Requirements

• Reference information learned throughout the unit
• Identify each of the 5 steps.
• Explain what you will do at each step and why it's important.

Presentation ideas

• Slide such as PPTs
• Brochure
• Video

• Storybook
• Audio Recording
• Stop Animation

Presenting Understanding

We have covered many sources of energy. Each has pros and cons that must be considered. The ideal energy source may change depending on the location and power needs.

• Create an informative presentation that will help individuals determine which form of energy is right for them.
• Example presentations include:
• Web page
• Brochure
• Infographic

Be sure to include:

• How the energy is harnessed
• Pros/Cons to the energy option
• The type of area the energy souce would be most efficient in
• The type of area the energy source woud be least efficient in
• The efficiency of the energy source.

• PPT
• Poster
• Video

Driving Conditions

Severe weather conditions and impared drivers can increase driving risks.

Choose one of the hazardous conditions below to complete this research assignment. Make sure to complete all of the required components.

Requirements

• Identify and Describe the hazardous condition
• Discuss the current data pertaining to the hazard.
• # of accidents in PA and US/year,
• # of deaths in PA and US/Year
• Devise a way you could protect yourself when this hazard is presented while driving.

• Heavy Rain
• Dense Fog
• Accumulating Snow
• Driver under the influence of a substance
• Unconsious Driver (Black Out)