"Students who understand can use their knowledge and skill in new situations. Place emphasis on application in authentic contexts, with a real or simulated audience, purpose, setting, constraints, and background noise." This quote truly resonated with me. I think that this concept is very important for teachers and curriculum designers to keep in mind. By using authentic performance tasks as a form of assessment students are able to actively apply what they have learned, rather than just spit the information out in a multiple choice test. I believe that actually using their learned knowledge will help them to develop a deeper, longer lasting understanding of how to use their new knowledge in new situations throughout their life. This type of assessment actually turns the "assessment" into a learning activity and not just a way to test understanding.
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November 2015
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