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What is Authentic Assessment?

The goal of authentic assessments is to evaluate a student’s ability to demonstrate understanding of core leaning objectives in a real-world context. Unlike traditional assessments, authentic assessment does not seek to measure rote learning and then require students to recall and restate the information. Instead, authentic assessment focuses on students' capacity to understand, analyze, and integrate instructional materials and apply that...

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