What is Alternative Assessment

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A performance-based assessment by which learners demonstrate their learning in place of more traditional forms assessment such as examinations and tests. Learn more in: Using Alternative Assessments to Teach and Assess for Proficiency in the Experience Age

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A broad category of non-traditional evaluation of learning options designed to provide a more accurate picture of specific skills (e.g., portfolio, open book tests, cooperative projects, peer reviews). Learn more in: Beyond High-Stakes Assessment

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Assessments that are different in form than traditional (e.g., quiz) assessments. Learn more in: Assessing Student Learning

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A concept concerning a holistic, multifaced and ability-focused practice gathering information about an assessee. Alternative evaluation focuses on the quality of information resulting from the evaluative practice, in order to provide the proper feedback to the stakeholders and to permit accurate decisions. Learn more in: Alternative Evaluation as a Means of Inclusion: The Case of the Public Greek Educational System

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Non-traditional approaches to understand student mastery of a topic. Learn more in: Artistic Biotechnology: A Design Thinking Platform for STEAM Praxis

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Also referred to as authentic assessment, these measures often require direct examination of student performance using “real-world” tasks requiring complex thinking processes. Learn more in: Assessment of Complex Learning Outcomes in Online Learning Environments

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Alternative assessment is a holistic approach for student assessment with a different form of grading where students are enabled to provide their own responses or work by progressive demonstration of material learned over a given time period. Learn more in: Traditional Versus Digital Assessment Methods: Faculty Development

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Alternative assessment is any type of assessment in which students create a response to a question or task, rather than choosing a response from a given list as in traditional assessments. Learn more in: A Qualitative Case Study on Changes in a Five-Year One-To-One Laptop Initiative

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Non-traditional type of assessment that allows students to demonstrate their ability to apply knowledge in different ways. Learn more in: Building Teacher Expertise Through the Design of a Task-Based and CLIL- Oriented English Course for Wine Tourism Postgraduates

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The use of tools and strategies to assess knowledge/learning that do not fit in a traditional testing model, such as graphic representations of knowledge, performance assessments, authentic assessments that result in a product of use to the learning community or others. Learn more in: A Framework for Identifying and Supporting English Learners With High Abilities, Gifts, and Talents

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Activities developed by an instructor to assist the student identify the processes and products of learning beyond the “one right answer” approach, and where the scoring or rating criteria are distributed at the same time as the assignment directions. Learn more in: Rubrics as an Assessment Tool in Distance Education