Validity, Reliability And Authenticity Of Assessment

Validity, Reliability and Authenticity of Assessment Validity This assessment piece is valid as the task sheet, the curriculum descriptors, and the rubric all align. This is evident in the ‘Adapted backwards design’ where all the content descriptors indicating are mentioned in the unit of learning and are prevalent in the development of the assessment piece and in the marking. The rubric, in-particular, can be seen as very task specific and demonstrates what is expected to achieve a minimal progress mark to an outstanding mark overall. Black (2014) states that it is important to have a task specific rubric so that students can get a more accurate result on their work rather than a mark that is based on the markers attitude towards that student or on how the marker is feeling at the time. The rubric also sets clear guidelines for the required mark as rather than continuously changing the terminology from ‘a satisfactory standard’ to ‘an exceptional standard’ and so on – it actually tells students wha t is expected and included in the assessment piece to achieve that mark. This is evident where the rubric states that to get a satisfactory mark the oral piece has to persuade the audience but to get an outstanding mark the audience has to want to take action. The rubric is an extension of the task sheet in this case but still correlates to the assignment task so that students know what they have to do. The curriculum descriptors all relate to and are included in the students’Show MoreRelatedEvaluation Of The Year 4 Science Assessment Task1177 Words   |  5 PagesScience Assessment Task: Animal Habitats, it is evident that validity, reliability, fairness, flexibility and authenticity play an integral role in the planning and assessment process. 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