Topic 8: Assessment |
Food for Thought 1. What is authentic assessment? Below, Professor Jan Herrington from Murdoch University, explains authentic learning and assessment. Jan's YouTube channel is JanH119. 2. Is there a lot of scope to use authentic assessment in English? What are some challenges to using authentic assessment tasks? 3. When students are set an assessed task, they need to know what the teacher will be marking them on. A rubric is a criteria sheet for making clear to the teacher what they are marking, for ensuring what is being marked is aligned with the curriculum, and ensuring students are clear about what they will be marked on. The video below describes rubcrics: 4. Create a rubric or marking criteria sheet for a fictitious assessment, or for an assessment in your English program. |
