Authentic Assessment | Origin: EL107
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Designing Dynamic and Technology-Rich Learning Environments --> Authentic Assessment
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By assessing the whole process and focusing in the student ability to understand and also demonstrate what's being learned will build the student confidence as well as give the teacher a better understanding of the students learning progress.
Use of holistic assessments is so important that all students can feel empowered and valued in the learning process and so their learning can be truly measured.
I'm intrigued by the idea of using exam reviews to cultivate critical thinking. By tweaking a single variable and exploring the consequences, we're pushing students to think more deeply and apply their knowledge in new ways. This not only enhances their test-taking abilities but also equips them with essential skills for the real world.
I have printed this quote about teachers in the new learning process: If they are to focus on recognition of the process, they must support the process, remain committed to the process, and then reward the process at the end of the course.
It is essential to create assessments that allows to evaluate the overall learning and outcome process of the student
Holistic assessments allow for student empowerment and measure outcomes effectively; they should be implemented in courses.
Holistic assessments allow students to use multiple types of learning.
Learning outcomes must be what drives the assessment of learning and holistic assessment helps students feel empowered.
This learning has allowed me the opportunity to change the way that I think about assessments. Assessments should be student driven and focus on gleaning information about what the student has learned.
Learning comes in different forms. Testing does not have to be the only way to discern what our students are capable of doing.
Holistic assessment is more likely to engage students and when they apply their knowledge to real world experiences personal to them, it makes the knowledge not only more applicable but gives them more confidence in that knowledge.
Holistic assessments are better for learning than some traditional techniques that might rely only on memorization of material. Teachers can improve the learning environment by employing techniques that aim at holistic assessments with technologies that support this. Innovation, design and application shaped by desired learning outcomes should drive assessment development.
valuable information to learn different forms of assessments
The critical thinking activity. An alternative is to use test review to develop critical thinking ability: after a test has been completed and the instructor is reviewing it with students, the instructor can change one data point in a question and/or response list and then ask the students, “How would this change the outcome?” I plan to use this method.
Testing is necessary in some programs/courses.
Widely used assessment methods & the relationship to online classes/utility as an assessment. I'm a believer in exams - especially because most health professions require some kind of certification exam for licensure or base-line competency to enter a field - but I have long felt that my exams could be "better". While still struggling to get through this text-heavy presentation of ideas/theory/suggestions, this has been the most thought provoking section.
Learned about the effectiveness of holistic assessment and allowing students to feel empowered in the learning process.
Great information. Testing should be student-centered and learning outcomes oriented. Holistic assessments help to encourage different types of learning methods. Traditional assessments are content specific and do not truly assess what a student may have learned. Effective learning and the forms of assessment continue to change.
I have learned that many of the old methods of assessment are not reliable indicators of authentic learning.
