By the Author of WANTED: Eight Critical Skills You Need To Succeed
Authentic Assessment is hard to do – but it’s the way assessment of skills SHOULD be done! Authentic assessment refers to assessment tasks that resemble reading and writing in the real world and in school (Hiebert, Valencia & Afflerbach, 1994; Wiggins, 1993). Its aim is to assess many different kinds of literacy abilities in contexts […]
Read More…The Verified Resume is a skills-based credential created by Dr. Arnold Packer, former Executive Director of the Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS). This tool is an authentic assessment document demonstrating, through third party verification, that an individual has mastered certain essential critical skills. Assessment of the so-called “soft skills” and Critical Skills do […]
Read More…Authentic assessment is somewhat like singing for your supper. You sing poorly, you don’t eat; you sing marginally well, you get pasta; you sing very well, you get steak; you sing superbly, you win a Grammy. Authentic assessment is measurement through performance and/or demonstration of a relevant intellectual task. It does not involve making a […]
Read More…During the “School-to-Work” days, a program called Coop2000 was used by many school systems to manage their work-based learning programs. Coop2000 Just click on “Powerpoint Presentation” to view slideshow. The system enabled schools to: “Connect” work-based activities to the SCANS Foundation Skills and Competencies (Teaching the SCANS Competencies), Create work-based learning agreements, Create authentic assessment […]
Read More…Excellent post and a good blog to visit if you are concerned about quality education in this country.
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