Assessment

Assessment is a means of gathering information for a specific purpose, and most often reveals one's knowledge about targeted content. It is a way of determining whether a student knows information about a topic or how much they know about the topic. It can be formal or informal, have high-stakes or low-stakes, come in a variety of forms, and can be graded multiple ways.

Authentic Assessment Examples:
1.) Create a product: (Ex: shoe-box setting) Students can create a setting of a story/novel inside a shoe-box. They will make the inside of the shoe-box look like a setting in the story. It should display what the author describes.

2.) Make a movie: Students could re-create a scene in the story and film it. An extension of this could be to take the idea/concept of the story and relate it to a modern day idea. They would film the new version of the story and show how it relates the old story. The new film would need to follow the same story structure. (Ex: Students could take the storyline from 'Frankenstein' and use it to re-create a film about 'Pimp My Ride ~ Went Wrong'.)

3.) Create a collage: Students would find pictures that are relevant to the topic and create a collage. This could be abstract. For example, the collage could represent the mood of the story.