21st Century Social Studies Assessment

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• S.S. Learning & Assessment Objectives
• Defining Assessment
• Examples of A.A.
• Advantages of Traditional Assessment
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• Advantages of A. A.
• Why we need Change
• Challenges & Controversies of A. A.
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So generally what alternative assessments assess students are as follows. Higher-Order Thinking where 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 where 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 where 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 and connection to the world beyond the classroom where students make connections between substantive knowledge and either public problems or personal experiences.

Let us reflect, based on the four standards of alternative assessment, this means that it is about time we reexamine how we conduct our Social Studies assessment so that we can achieve the aims of Social Studies.


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