Standards of Alternative Assessment
• Higher-Order Thinking: Instruction involves students in manipulating information and ideas by synthesizing, generalizing, explaining, or arriving at conclusions that produce new meaning and understandings for them.
• Deep Knowledge: Instruction addresses central ideas of a topic or discipline with enough thoroughness to explore connections and relationships and to produce relatively complex understanding.
• Substantive Conversation: Students engage in extended conversational exchanges with the teacher and/or peers about subject matter in a way that builds an improved and shared understanding of ideas or topics.
• Connections to the World Beyond the Classroom: Students make connections between substantive knowledge and either public problems or personal experiences.
Reflect Fits well with Social Studies Conceptual Framework. Doesn’t that means Alternative Assessment will be a better assessment for our students?
