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Need to ensure variety of task available so that different classes do not  replicate solutions from one another.

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AA in group work may promote good SEL.

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How to better assess individual performance, if need arise? By Presentation?

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2. Difficult to impact answering skills through AA. If every subject has AA, how are students going to cope?

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Suggestion to do a hybrid btw authentic task... to also include possibility of teacher, class intervention to promote success of learning.

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Some of the concerns are real. How to grant exemption for exam. Students good in AA may not be good in theory.
Maybe have to delink AA with exemption

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1. SLS lesson on EM Spectrum: Got students to present Content Extend Challenge views on video and one other application group is interested in to research on.
2. Pros: Critical/Creative thinking in process of engaging students
Cons: Logistics like for need for makeup and fairness between task
3. How to make it fair assessment?

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Practical assessment which is not graded. Assessed how students record observation in experiment.

Time consuming and have to set aside a lesson to prepare student and give feedback. Hard to set different task with appropriate difficulty level.

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1. Performance Task
Creating a QA puzzle with solutions.
Get 3 students to complete it and get feedback.
Modify the puzzle and submit for grading.

2.
Pros: As described in ppt
Cons: standardising grading across teachers/classes; student level of readiness (whether they have the pre-requisite knowledge to attempt the task)

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How to solve the cons

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LSS - Measurement and golden ratio (performance task)

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Good in testing students’ true abilities in applying concepts rather than rote learning. However there may be difficulty in standardising the assessment.

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Students choose one place to visit n write a report to explain what science-related knowledge they learnt fr their visit.

Pros: student-directed; students get to choose where they want to go; allows for more trs’ discretion to award students’ effort.

Cons: students who couldn’t be bothered, just went to grass patch below his block, or throw in some vague concepts learnt in pri sch; extend n depth of learning is spread over a v broad spectrum; SES advantage came into play.

My qn: if the student didnt “succeed” in producing a working product n the rubric may be bias towards learning from positive outcomes... do we consider learning “what is wrong”/“what didn’t work” as learning too??

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Scope of authentic task may not be wide enough to encompass sio... other sections might have to be assessed with other means... time factor then

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During the days of ACE, performance tasks and authentic tasks were commonly infused into lessons. 

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During the days of ACE, performance tasks and authentic tasks were commonly infused into lessons. 

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Pros : interesting for Teachers and students

Cons: time

Issues : how to assess skills and knowledge of individual students within a group.
Standardisation for task is going to be a real issue.

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1. AA should be used to assess students in more authentic and complex situations. Students are not expected to give a "fixed/model" answer but are assessed based on how well they fufill the rubrics given.
2. Pros: Authentic learning & stretching of creativity and applications. Cons: May be hard to execute
3. Won't it be hard to keep on thinking of creative and novel AA tasks?

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1. What do you know about AA?  Share with us one authentic task or performance task that you have conducted.

2. What are some of the pros and cons of Alternative
Assessment?

3. What questions arise for you as you think about Alternative Assessment?