Authentic Assessment
Authentic Assessment
Assessments are the assignments and activities used to assess or measure students’ learning over time and, ultimately, their mastery of your course outcomes. They also provide students with progress checks of their learning throughout a course.
- What is Authentic Assessment?
- Implementing Authentic Assessments
- Strategies for Discouraging Cheating
- Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning
Links
Additional Information
- Equity and Assessment: Moving towards Culturally Responsive Assessment. National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA)
- A New Decade for Assessment: Embedding Equity into Assessment Praxis. National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA).
- Designing Adaptable Classroom Assessment: A webinar from the Assessment Institute hosted by Indiana University
- Authentic Learning. University of Minnesota.
- Assessment strategies that support Section C of the CVC rubric.
- Pedagogical Practices related to Assessment from the Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository
- Authentic Assessment from the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning at Indiana University Bloomington
- CCCCO Camera Memo
Attributions
Content on these pages is adapted from
- Assessment in Digital Learning by @ONE licensed CC BY 4.0 International License
- Authentic Assessment Guide by @ONE licensed CC BY 4.0 International License
References
- ACSD. (2012, November 27). Eight Questions for 2011 Emerging Leader Doug Paulson.
- Dietel, R. J., Herman, J. L., & Knuth, R. A. (1991). What does research say about assessment?
- Muller, J. (2008). What is authentic assessment. Authentic assessment toolbox.
- Stiggins, R. J. (1987). The design and development of performance assessments. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 6, 33-42.
- Lester, F. K., & Kroll, D. L. (1996). Evaluation: A New Vision. In National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (Ed.), Emphasis on assessment (pp. 3-8). Reston, VA: NCTM.
- Kulm (1994). Mathematics assessment: What works in the classroom. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass Inc.
