Assessment Garden: Authentic and alternative assessment directory

Welcome to our directory of assessment methods. We focused on collecting authentic and alternative assessments as opposed to more traditional assessment.

Alternative and authentic assessments, ask students to think about what they've learned and consider what they need to solve a problem. Authentic assessments can involve complex real-world tasks and focus on letting students practice, get feedback, and improve their work rather than just giving a right or wrong answer.  While alternative assessment might take spin on traditional assessment to bring more creatively. 

For this directory, we did not assign each assessment method as either authentic, alternative or traditional as depending on the topic it could change.

The Bloom's cognitive levels were assigned by our instructional designer or by the assessment source. Adjustments to the method can change the Bloom's cognitive level. 

Each assessment method listing includes 

  • tag(s) for assigned Bloom’s cognitive level(s) taxonomy. 
  • hyperlink(s) or book reference to the assessment source. 
  • tag(s) for assessment type: formative or summative

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