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Terry Elliott

Healthier Testing Made Easy: The Idea of Authentic Assessment | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Our job is to teach to the standards, not the test. Many educators forget this.
  • Substitute feedback for assessment, and you'll better understand what I mean. The point of assessment in education is to advance learning, not to merely audit absorption of facts.
  • Increasing formative assessment is the key to improvement on tests of all kinds, including traditional ones.
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  • What do I mean by "authentic assessment"? It's simply performances and product requirements that are faithful to real-world demands, opportunities, and constraints. The students are tested on their ability to "do" the subject in context, to transfer their learning effectively.
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