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Article: A teacher's guide to alternative assessment; taking the first steps.
- Article from:
- The Clearing House
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
- Author:
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In a fifth grade classroom, students are bent over their graphic calculators rapidly writing observations while the teacher watches. The task is to hypothesize at what point and why the graph flattens as they grasp the calculator's probe with their hand. These children are learning by experimenting with the material to be learned. When it is time to assess these and other skills learned during the unit, the teacher could assess using traditional paper and pencil tests. Instead, the teacher chooses an alternative technique. The students are called individually to eight different stations where they meet with junior interns who have worked with the students throughout the ...
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... ... educational experience can use alternative assessment methods to help both students and ... specific goals" (p. viii). Alternative assessment simply means implementing non ... student learning and achievement. In alternative assessment students engage in higher order ...
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