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Carmen Vallis – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
In this Point of Departure, the idea of authentic assessment is examined and troubled by drawing on Derrida's hauntology. The spectres of higher education invite us to reconsider what is 'real' about past, present, and future assessment practices. Such spectres do not lecture or produce a single, definitive interpretation. Rather, these spectres…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Higher Education, Ideology, Evaluation Methods
Claire Timperley; Kate Schick – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Traditional authentic assessment tasks are frequently tied to future work and enmeshed in neoliberal and capitalist visions of education. We advocate an alternative approach where authenticity signifies meaningful learning outside the confines of the classroom to promote deep learning that 'sticks'. We proffer an understanding of "assessment…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Philosophy, World Views, Instruction
Rola Ajjawi; Joanna Tai; Mollie Dollinger; Phillip Dawson; David Boud; Margaret Bearman – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
For over 30 years, the notion of authentic assessment in higher education has been adopted in academic practice, but it has managed to escape substantial critique. Although there have been multiple definitions and operationalisations of authentic assessment, current practice tends to foreground mimicking of work tasks. Authenticity cannot be…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Performance Based Assessment, Authentic Learning, Student Evaluation
Gibbons, Rebecca E.; Hokien, Deborah; Hutson, Bryant L.; Janio, Jarek; Maness, Heather T. D. – Assessment Update, 2023
The Grand Challenges in Assessment (GCA), a collaborative across assessment professionals and organizations, seeks to improve assessment activities through scholarship and access to practical information. To achieve the GCA strategic priorities, the authors provide resources for enacting rapid pedagogical change, defined as instructional…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Educational Assessment
Sam Elkington; Paul Chesterton – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Studies reporting flexible assessment strategies and their impact across different modes of study remain limited with little emphasis placed on the role these arrangements play in devising authentic assessment processes. This paper synthesises recent research work depicting flexible design principles and practice strategies for how educators might…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Design, Teaching Methods
Hendrick Cho – Region 19 Comprehensive Center, 2024
The Republic of the Marshall Islands Public School System, requested information about alternative assessment evaluation, including detail on performance and competency-based assessment. In response, this high-level scan from the Region 19 Comprehensive Center identifies example tools and measures along with key resources and references. Also…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Performance Based Assessment, Competency Based Education, State Policy
Calderon, Angel – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2023
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have long embraced a path towards sustainability and engaged in supporting sustainable development. The adoption of the sustainability development goals has forced HEIs to assess how they engage with these goals and how they address societal challenges head on. However, the emergence of sustainability rankings…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Institutional Evaluation, Sustainable Development, Objectives
Shaw, Brian P. – Music Educators Journal, 2021
Concert attendance is often a major determinant of student grades in ensemble classes. Yet, there are reasons to question whether concert night is an effective setting for student assessment. This article probes the usefulness and fairness of concert grades and suggests policies that support equitable learning environments. Strategies for…
Descriptors: Music Education, Performance, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Casebolt, Kevin; Zhang, Peng – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2020
The purpose of this article is to enhance the existing literature about effective teaching practices for the sport of badminton, specifically introducing an adaptation for an "assessment for learning" rubric. Using a standards-based model, the "play practice" conceptual framework of assessment can be implemented for the sport…
Descriptors: Racquet Sports, Performance Based Assessment, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Maier, Anna; Adams, Julie; Burns, Dion; Kaul, Maya; Saunders, Marisa; Thompson, Charlie – Learning Policy Institute, 2020
Performance assessments are part of a robust assessment system in which students show what they know by writing an essay, curating a portfolio of work, or conducting original research. Ultimately, performance assessments can allow students to demonstrate college and career readiness through a culminating assessment--such as a graduate capstone or…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, High School Seniors, School Districts, Student Evaluation
Pool, Juli Lull; Hampshire, Patricia – Young Exceptional Children, 2020
Assessment can be challenging for professionals in the early childhood setting, given the variety of ways that young children show what they know. Early childhood professionals who work with children with exceptionalities take into consideration individual needs when planning for assessments. Authentic assessment provides a more complete picture…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Observation, Preschool Education, Student Evaluation
Gyll, Sean P. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
Simulated testing has become more prevalent in higher education, especially as competency-based institutions begin to incorporate micro-credentials and skills certificates into their curriculum. Competency-based assessment falls outside traditional norm-based testing practices used in K-12 education, and is largely focused on criterion referenced…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Evaluation Methods, Knowledge Level, Measurement
Beckie Bray Rankin; Nikki Prasad – NECTFL Review, 2024
Motivating students towards language learning includes embedding meaningful themes, communicative tasks, and authentic assessments. When voice and choice are held as essential qualities of the task, students invest in the resources to make meaning and express their own thoughts, thus moving us away from traditional assessments that emphasize…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Performance Based Assessment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Donaldson, Joseph L. – Journal of Extension, 2019
In response to research demonstrating that Tennessee Extension agents desired a performance appraisal system that better reflected their jobs and provided for appraisers' professional development, a committee of University of Tennessee and Tennessee State University personnel undertook a 2-year initiative to revise the performance appraisal…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Extension Agents, Teacher Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment
Alsalemi, Abdullah; Alhomsi, Yahya; Bensaali, Faycal; Alinier, Guillaume; Hssain, Ali – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2021
Simulation plays an important part in enhancing the outcomes of clinical training worldwide. In particular, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a life-saving procedure that utilizes a cardiopulmonary bypass circuit to offer short or mid-term respiratory and circulatory assistance to seriously ill patients. After the current Coronavirus…
Descriptors: Simulation, Diseases, Patients, Medical Education