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Assessment Journal #5 Today the students had an authentic assessment type through individual interviews with the teacher. The students have been generating research on penguins throughout the past few weeks. During their penguin theme they have been researching using computers, reading books and stories on penguins, researching in the library, watching videos, and much more. Today was the last day they were spending time researching penguins, so the teacher conducted interviews throughout the past few days, one-on-one with the students. During the interviews the students would have their penguin worksheets/assignments that they had completed and show the teacher their work. The teacher would ask basic questions on the subject, and about their completed work, to try and get an understanding of how they did with the theme, and what worked and didn’t work. This assessment I feel was both for the teacher to know what to change and keep in her penguin lessons in the future, and to see how the students did with their research. Authentic assessments are designed to grasp students’ understanding of material. Through open ended questions, and the students mini portfolios the teacher was able to gain student feedback on the information they were taught and to understand information on what they need to improve. Authentic assessments also help teachers better design instruction. Interviewing is a real world situation, and I feel that in doing so the students gained knowledge of self-evaluation because they were very much involved in the process. The student interviews that I was able to see went well, and all of the students had their mini portfolios and were able to give feedback, therefore, I’m sure all of them received sufficient credit for the interview assessment on the rubric used. If I were to conduct short interviews in the classroom, I would have keep a record of student responses on the lesson in terms of the questions I asked, so in the future I can look back and examine what to do differently or what worked out well.

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