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- Helps students contextualize their learning
- Incorporates how real world learning, unpredictability, ambiguity and complexity affect knowledge
- helps students rehearse for the complex ambiguities of working and professional life - to visualize themselves as real professionals.
“Assessing Authentically.” UNSW Teaching Staff Gateway,

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Thus, in AA, assessment drives the curriculum.  That is, teachers first determine the tasks that students will perform to demonstrate their mastery, and then a curriculum is developed that will enable students to perform those tasks well, which would include the acquisition of essential knowledge and skills.  This has been referred to as planning backwards (e.g., McDonald, 1992)

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Thus, in AA, assessment drives the curriculum.  That is, teachers first determine the tasks that students will perform to demonstrate their mastery, and then a curriculum is developed that will enable students to perform those tasks well, which would include the acquisition of essential knowledge and skills.  This has been referred to as planning backwards (e.g., McDonald, 1992)

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“Assessing Authentically.” UNSW Teaching Staff Gateway, teaching.unsw.edu.au/authentic-assessment.

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More traditional forms of assessment, such as essays and examinations, have no specific application in most real-world settings. Authentic assessment helps students contextualise their learning and to see how real-life conditions or situations, in all their unpredictability, ambiguity and complexity, affect their theoretical knowledge.

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Mueller, Jon. “Authentic Assessment Toolbox.” Authentic Assessment Toolbox Home Page, North Central College, 2016, jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/index.htm.

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to the Authentic Assessment Toolbox, a how-to text on creating authentic tasks, rubrics, and standards for measuring and improving student learning. Inside, you will find chapters on

A good place to start -- In this chapter I identify the characteristics, strengths and limitations of authentic assessment; compare and contrast it with traditional (test-based) assessment.

Why has authentic assessment become more popular in recent years? When can it best serve assessment needs?

After a brief overview, follow a detailed, four-step process for creating an authentic assessment.

All good assessment begins with standards: statements of what we want our students to know and be able to do. What do we really value?

Authentic assessments are often called "tasks" because they include real-world applications we ask students to perform.

To assess the quality of student work on authentic tasks, teachers develop rubrics, or scoring scales.

A collection of a student's work specifically selected to tell a particular story about the student -- and a great opportunity to develop self-assessment skills

A guide to constructing good, multiple-choice tests, to complement your authentic assessments

See what standards, tasks and rubrics, and portfolios look like. You are welcome to send me other examples to share with your fellow educators.

Wonder what a term means? Click on italicized, underlined terms throughout the site to go to the glossary. Green text that is not underlined is a standard link to another page.

Look over my shoulder as I help an imaginary teacher in the development of standards, authentic tasks, and rubrics.

Who is Jon Mueller? Why did he create this site? Inquiring minds...

Thanks to all of you who have adopted this text for your courses. I hope your students have found it useful.

We ask students to memorize reams of information that they will rarely if ever use again, but we often fail to teach them the critical skills needed to meet the daily challenges of the 21st century, skills such as information literacy, collaboration, metacognitive reflection, and self-assessment. One reason we have shied away from teaching such skills is that we are unsure how to assess them. Thus, in this text I offer a detailed set of steps and examples, including rubrics, of how to summatively and formatively assess the skills our students need. For K-16 educators.

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to the Authentic Assessment Toolbox, a how-to text on creating authentic tasks, rubrics, and standards for measuring and improving student learning. Inside, you will find chapters on A good place to start -- In this chapter I identify the characteristics, strengths and limitations of authentic assessment; compare and contrast it with traditional (test-based) assessment.