21st Century Social Studies Assessment

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• Abstract
• S.S. Learning & Assessment Objectives
• Defining Assessment
• Examples of A.A.
• Advantages of Traditional Assessment
• Disadvantages of A. A.
• Disadvantages of Traditional Assessment
• Advantages of A. A.
• Why we need Change
• Challenges & Controversies of A. A.
• Recommendations
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
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  Disadvantages of Alternative Assessment

- Performance assessment for example indicates that somewhere between 8 to 16   trials of student performance may be necessary in order to obtain a reliable   judgment (Alaska Education, 1996).

- Difficulties in getting a comparative data (Alaska Education, 1996).

- Alternative assessment allows student choice and negotiation and can find   manifestation in range of heterogeneous devices therefore, it is not difficult for   irrelevant variables to be used in making judgments about achievement     (Maclellan, 2004).

- Difficulties in ensuring that assessment task elicits the skills underlying the performance in the domain
  of interest to validate the task (Alaska Education, 1996)

- Construct driven where knowledge and skills to be assessed, guide the selection   of the task and scoring procedures- high possibility of confusion when one   interpretation of performance assessment rather than another is assumed   (Maclellan, 2004).

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