Advantages of Alternative Assessment
- An integral part of teaching and learning processes, which are closely related to instruction.
- Requires a student to create an answer or a product that demonstrates his or her knowledge and skills (Mathison, 1997).
- A shift from knowing the right answer to a demonstration of how they arrive at an answer (Mathison, 1997).
Advantages for Teachers
- Gain access to student thinking.
- Enhance ability to use non threatening questions that elicit explanations and reveal misconceptions.
- Strengthen learning skills show respect for their students by being non- judgmental.
- Encourage respect for diversity.
- Pose questions that encourage students to construct and share their own understandings
- Reinforcement for letting go of “teaching as telling”.
(Stenmark, 1991)
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