Authentic assessment (alternative assessment, performance assessment)

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Assessment is authentic when we directly examine student performance on worthy intellectual tasks.... Authentic assessments present the student with a full array of tasks that mirror the priorities and challenges found in the best instructional activities.

A form of assessment in which students are asked to perform real-world tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of essential knowledge and skills -- Jon Mueller. Jon has an Authentic Assessment Toolbox at http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/index.htm

For a discussion of authentic assessment and its use in adult vocational education see ACVE paper at http://www.cete.org/acve/mp_custer_01.asp and for techniques see the ACVE brief at http://www.cete.org/acve/docgen.asp?tbl=archive&ID=A032.

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