STUDENT ENGAGEMENT THROUGH AUTHENTIC INTEGRATED STAGE ASSESSMENT Wayne Inwood and Andrew Weeding

Effective Assessment for Student Engagement – What is the target? Syllabus links and clear outcomes. Fewer not more for a deep understanding Inclusive of all students Clear instructions Balanced, comprehensive, varied Fair, inclusive, valid, reliable Ongoing, sequential Challenging tasks fostering a deep understanding and inviting risk taking Student centred Supported by models, scaffolds and exemplar samples Reflects adjustments to teaching and learning

What is assessment? What do you think of the statement ‘we should be assessing more not less’ ? (Wiggins) Getting Started

Standardised Testing vs Authentic Assessment Reduces children’s rich and complex lives to a collection of scores, percentiles and grades Creates stresses that negatively affect a child’s performance Pressures teachers to narrow their curriculum to only what is tested on the exam Gives the teacher a felt sense of the child’s unique experience as a learner Provides interesting, active, lively and exciting experiences Allows teachers to develop meaningful curricula and assess within the context of that program Armstrong, T. (2009). Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom. ASCD. Alexandria.,Vancouver.

“Authentic assessment is when we directly examine student performance on worthy intellectual tasks” (1) “Performances and product requirements that are faithful to real world demands, opportunities and constraints, testing students on their ability to do the subject and transfer learning effectively” (2) What does this mean? What is a worthy intellectual task? What are some types of authentic assessment? What is Authentic Assessment? (1)Wiggins, G. (1990). Retrieved June 15, 2010 from (2) Wiggins, G. (2010) “Healthier Testing Made Easy: The Idea of Authentic Assessment”, Retrieved 16 June from

Simulate real life conditions or situations Learning experiences that add to a students’ level of knowledge Enables transfer of this knowledge to other similar situations both in and out of the classroom Performance Assessment..\Survey Results- pre SRP.doc What is Authentic Assessment? Creating Authentic Assessment, Learning and Teaching Centre, Macquarie UniversitySydney Morning Herald, 16 June 2010

 Pre -Assessment  Summative Assessment  Formative Assessment  Self Assessment Self Assessment Balancing Assessment in Programs