{"id":986,"date":"2021-10-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/?p=986"},"modified":"2023-02-02T11:59:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T11:59:32","slug":"authentic-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/2021\/10\/19\/authentic-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Authentic Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"636\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/files\/2021\/10\/question-g98322b1ec_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/files\/2021\/10\/question-g98322b1ec_1280.jpg 636w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/files\/2021\/10\/question-g98322b1ec_1280-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Having a new assessment system (Inspera) offers the opportunity to redesign assessments, and there are many examples of authentic assessment already running throughout FMS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is Authentic Assessment?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Authentic assessment covers a wide range of assessment techniques, including setting tasks that students may be asked to undertake in their future careers. It also covers the setting of other purposeful tasks \u2013 assessments that have value beyond simply testing knowledge, such as reflective tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the FMS TEL conference, a session was run that covered several examples of authentic assessment. Examples came from the School of Dentistry, presented by Ruth Valentine and Chris Penlington, the School of Psychology\u2019s Psychology of Religion module led by Patrick Rosenkranz, and the School of Biomedical Sciences, presented by Lindsey Ferrie. The resources can be accessed via the links below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Video and <a href=\"https:\/\/campus.recap.ncl.ac.uk\/Panopto\/Content\/Sessions2122\/e8953faa-5821-49af-98cb-ada400cc21b3\/956c3b5c-8cfb-42ac-b36f-ada400cc21b9-97bec315-af92-4802-a2c6-ada400d668f7.mp4?invocationId=0a4f888a-b117-ec11-9135-0050568d38ea\">Audio<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/campus.recap.ncl.ac.uk\/Panopto\/Pages\/Embed.aspx?id=956c3b5c-8cfb-42ac-b36f-ada400cc21b9&amp;autoplay=false&amp;offerviewer=false&amp;showtitle=false&amp;showbrand=false&amp;start=0&amp;interactivity=all\">Panopto<\/a> directly.<\/li><li>Full set of resources on the FMS TEL Community on <a href=\"https:\/\/ncl.instructure.com\/courses\/30988\/pages\/conference-2021-14-introduction-to-authentic-assessment\">Canvas<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/mle.ncl.ac.uk\/cases\/page\/30525\/\">MLE<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inspera Resources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out our previous posts on <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/tag\/inspera\/\">Inspera<\/a> for more information, or read more on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/learning-and-teaching\/digital-technologies\/inspera\/\">LTDS website<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspera.com\/assessment\">Inspera&#8217;s corporate homepage<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Further Reading<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/documents.advance-he.ac.uk\/download\/file\/9894\">Advance HE Assessment Publication<\/a>, especially Sam Elkington on Flexible Assessment (sign-in needed)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jisc.ac.uk\/reports\/rethinking-assessment\">Rethinking Assessment from JISC<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plymouth.ac.uk\/uploads\/production\/document\/path\/10\/10105\/AUTHENTIC-ASSESSMENT_adapted_.pdf\">University of Plymouth Overview<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/repository.jisc.ac.uk\/7733\/1\/the-future-of-assessment-report.pdf\">The Future of Assessment <\/a>by JISC<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/sally-brown.net\/\">Sally Brown\u2019s Blog<\/a>, including this <a href=\"https:\/\/sally-brown.net\/2021\/08\/13\/authentic-assessment-in-august\/\">Authentic Assessment<\/a> summary.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a new assessment system (Inspera) offers the opportunity to redesign assessments, and there are many examples of authentic assessment already running throughout FMS. What is Authentic Assessment? Authentic assessment covers a wide range of assessment techniques, including setting tasks that students may be asked to undertake in their future careers. It also covers the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/2021\/10\/19\/authentic-assessment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Authentic Assessment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245,22],"tags":[267,275,277,216,264,278,276,224,429,428],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","category-webinar","tag-assessment","tag-authentic-assessment","tag-bms","tag-dentistry","tag-inspera","tag-psychology","tag-reflective-writing","tag-school-of-biomedical-nutritional-sport-sciences","tag-school-of-dentistry","tag-school-of-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}