Advantages of Alternative Assessment
- Provides a bridge between cognitive and the situative perspectives on learning.
- Tend to be broader, requiring integration of knowledge and skills from more than one curricular goal, objective, strand or discipline.
- Tend to focus on higher order thinking skills rather than recall and acquisition of facts. Tend to require analysis, explanation, interpretation, evaluation or comparison and contrast.
- Require responses that truly are open rather than by giving one “right” answer.
- Alternative assessments focus on processes and rationales.
- Defining traits of excellence and descriptions of levels of performance can be assessed (e.g. using rubrics as scoring guides that describe the level of performance).
(Liskin-Gasparro, 1997)
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