Vocabulary
The characteristics of an assessment that measures what it is supposed to measure.
What is Validity?
This assessment is taken with pencil or paper that are usually true/false, matching or multiple choice.
What is Traditional Assessment?
Advocates for authentic assessment suggest that assessments systems should focus on these four things.
What is the focus of authentic assessment?
An instruction and assessment strategy that is suggested as an alternative to traditional practice.
What is cognitive apprenticeship?
The types of skills that allow one the ability to do something well.
What is Authentic Skills?
Consistency and precision in scores, Score that are very close to what a student would typically receive on a given test are reliable.
What is Reliability?
This assessment requires examinees to perform or produce something for evaluation that is intended to assess skill or ability.
What is Performance Assessment?
Thinking on a level that is higher than memorizing facts or telling something back to someone exactly the way it was told to you.
What is Higher-Order Thinking Skills?
Groups act as more than just separate insights that are combined and cataloged. They often produce results that are more than just the sum of parts.
What is collective problem solving?
Knowledge of how to perform or how to do something.
What is Procedural Knowledge?
A written set of scoring rules, often in the form of a table.
What is Scoring Rubric?
Feedback produced while learning is occurring and concepts and knowledge bases still being developed.
What is Formative Assessment?
The process of finding solutions to difficult or complex issues.
What is problem solving?
Students need to understand different parts of the process, different pieces of the product. Opportunities are created for students to play different roles in the activity.
What is displaying multiple roles?
Use of critical-thinking and decision-making skills to find a solution.
What is Problem Solving?
The traditional theory explains learning by describing the classroom as a series of (A)antecedents, the environment context that leads to some behavior; the (B)ehavior of interest; and the (consequences, which are whatever happens to the student after the behavior.
What is ABC Model?
An assessment approach with the goal of summarizing student performance at the end of a period of instruction.
What is Summative Assessment?
The action of researching or inquiring about something.
What is investigation?
Authentic assessments identifying what does not work and what is wrong. The discussions and observations available in group interactions allow for presenting misunderstandings.
What is confronting ineffective strategies and misconceptions?
Working with others towards a shared goal.
What is Collaboration?
The teacher and student bring certain elements to the process- the student has particular characteristics (intelligence, skills, experience, motivation) and the teacher provides some instruction.
What is Cognitive Model?
Assessment that includes tasks, content, expectations, and evaluation methods similar to those that are valued outside of the classroom.
What is Authentic Assessment?
A detailed examination of anything complex in order to understand its essential feature.
What is Analysis?
The real world requires working together. Collaborative tasks allow for assessment of collaborative skills as students work and learn as a group.
What is assessing collaborative work skills?
Level of desire or willingness to do something.