Authentic assessment occurs when the task set requires students to apply skills learnt to real world situations that occur outside the classroom. This might occur as a formative assessment (allows students to use their skills and teachers to assess comprehension and understanding during the learning\u00a0process) or as a summative assessment (evaluates learning at the end of an instructional unit). Authentic assessment allows students to demonstrate knowledge as well as skills such as problem solving, creativity and critical thinking. This is a student driven process and asks students to create a product that responds to real world issues.<\/p>\n
*\u00a0 Test more than students\u2019 ability to recall and reproduce\u00a0factual knowledge.<\/p>\n
*\u00a0 Connect with what students might be doing outside their classroom either presently in their family or community or in their future as high school graduates.<\/p>\n
*\u00a0 Applies core\u00a0knowledge\u00a0learnt in order to solve complex problems.<\/p>\n
*\u00a0 Requires students to learn and develop high level skills such as critical thinking, creativity and problem solving.<\/p>\n
*\u00a0 Engineering\u00a0students work in\u00a0teams to address\u00a0questions of social\u00a0responsibility\u00a0and\u00a0communicate\u00a0their idea to a panel\u00a0of industry people<\/p>\n
*\u00a0 Law students have\u00a0an open book exam\u00a0in which they have\u00a024 hours to produce\u00a0a brief for a client<\/p>\n
*\u00a0 First year\u00a0architecture and\u00a0building students\u00a0design an outdoor\u00a0kitchen. They begin\u00a0by\u00a0observing\u00a0real\u00a0sites\u00a0and then\u00a0creating\u00a0a drawing model for\u00a0their own\u00a0specific site<\/p>\n
*\u00a0 First year physics\u00a0students test\u00a0equipment such as\u00a0vacuum\u00a0cleaner’s\u00a0\u00a0and TVs for\u00a0Choice Magazine.<\/p>\n
*\u00a0 At Bankstown Girls High School, students\u00a0design\u00a0developmentally\u00a0appropriate toys\u00a0for kids at a local\u00a0preschool and\u00a0present to them\u00a0for feedback<\/p>\n
*\u00a0 At Granville Boys High School, students build mini\u00a0F1 motorcars.\u00a0Feedback came from\u00a0UTS engineers and\u00a0students raced in FI\u00a0competition<\/p>\n
*\u00a0 At Oberon High School, students develop\u00a0marketing\u00a0resources to\u00a0promote\u00a0local\u00a0rock\u00a0formations and\u00a0displayed them in the local\u00a0tourism office<\/p>\n
* In one NSW school, students learned\u00a0about algebra and\u00a0geometry by\u00a0developing their\u00a0own lanterns and\u00a0auctioning them\u00a0for charity<\/p>\n
What authentic assessment are you doing in your school? Go to the contribute or inspire others page and share\u00a0on our blog\u00a0what you are doing in your classroom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Heard this before? ‘but when will I ever use this skill in the REAL world?’ Authentic assessment allows students to demonstrate key learning and 21st century skills through tasks that connect with the real world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,37,38,40,23,44,10,30,13],"tags":[53,52,54,32,50,55,56],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-creative-arts","category-design","category-english","category-hsie","category-mathematics","category-pbl-projects","category-pdhpe","category-technologies","tag-assessment","tag-authentic","tag-authentic-assessment","tag-education","tag-innovative","tag-learning","tag-teaching"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n