Here is a working chart for your authentic assessment planning.
Considerations for authentic assessment (based on research) |
Applications to blogging |
| ill defined (no clear or explicit outline of what needs to be done (tasks, subtasks, process, planning) | |
| Collaboration – multiple, varied, with ‘real world agents’ | |
| Reflection & metacognition, engaging beliefs and values | |
| Across domains – unbound from space; interdisciplinarity | |
| Various perspectives and resources (synch & asynch) – unbound by place | |
| Sustained over a period of time – unbound by chronology | |
| Complex activities – learning with vs learning from | |
| assessment is integrated INTO tasks | |
| Yields polished; ‘public ready’ products | |
| Allows for competing solutions – diversity of outcomes | |
| Students suspend beliefs – accept challenges | |
| Instructors scaffold collaboration & supports | |
| Co-creation of guidelines, protocols, choices, & structures | |
‘Real world’ connections (outside of the walled garden of learning) for
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