Introduction to Alternative Assessment

Remote learning platforms also provided faculty with opportunities to develop new pedagogical skills and alternative assessments.

Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment (CDA) is an alternative assessment which can give a clear picture of pupils’ learning process and cognitive structures to education stakeholders so that appropriate instructional strategies can be designed to tailored pupils’ needs.

Focusing on evaluating students’ performance in basic math classrooms, the researchers in this study examined the impact of alternative assessments on learning outcomes in fourth grade Palestinian classrooms.

It is not about the alternative assessment of the culture of the past and the present, but about the author’s ability to see cultural phenomena in dialectical development.

This study has several implications on design practices in teacher training, as well as the viability of text mining as an alternative assessment to measure design learning experiences.

This research aims to find out the reliability of peer assessment as a form of alternative assessment and as a part of student-centered learning process.

Item-level analyses of the dialect-use assessments were used to compute measures of dialect usage: (a) an overall feature rate measure based on the Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation-Screening Test, (b) a subscore analysis of the Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation-Screening Test based on items that pattern together, (c) an alternative assessment where children repeat and translate sentences, and (d) "repertoire" measures based on a categorical distinction of whether a child used a particular feature of mainstream American English.

Due to limitations associated with the on-road assessment, an alternative assessment that measures driving performance is warranted.

This implies that the training they need could be on how to select appropriate assessments for their students, how to design a test,  alternative assessments, and test specifications.

The significance of alternative assessment in second language (L2) has been widely acknowledged in the literature.

The results of the TOPSIS calculation process can find a more accurate alternative choice decision, because the alternative assessment is in accordance with the specified criteria.

In doing so, alternative assessment and communication methods for management of patients with oral conditions should be considered.

This study's objective was to investigate the video project assignment as an alternative assessment of general chemistry during online learning.

The study aimed at gauging science teachers’ usability of alternative assessments in light of four demographic variables: teacher specialization, school level, experience, and scientific qualification.

Alternative assessments are said to be suitable for young language learners, but are rarely used by language teachers from all educational levels.

This paper presents the application of alternative assessments in assessing the mentioned curriculum component among the engineering students in Tunku Abdul Rahman University College, Malaysia.

This study investigates the current practices and challenges of alternative assessment for the teachers.

This is crucial to accommodate its test case application as an alternative assessment for teamwork skills using Rubrics and questionnaires.

ConclusionChildren with clinically suspected spinal fracture in the absence of red flag signs/symptoms and negative radiographs might be considered for alternative assessments or investigations to reduce the risk of CT-related radiation hazards.

In this article, we describe the evaluation of the MOCA-Peds 2017 pilot, an alternative assessment for continuing certification in GP.

They offer forms of alternative assessment in which narrative texts play a central role; these include discussions, dialogues, journals and/or diaries.

Such local excitation patterns of chemically oriented basis functions can be related to the resonance concepts of valence bond theory, and quantitative evaluation of the associated excitation probabilities then provides an alternative assessment of resonance “weighting” that may be compared with those of NBO‐based natural resonance theory.

At the end of this article, alternative assessment is promoted to assess the learning process as well as the students’ project of digital storytelling.

How then can one provide an alternative assessment of those non-marketable assets? We propose in this paper a simple valuation framework for loans.

Within the framework of the expert methods of quality measurements development two fundamental elements of the methodology of subjective measurements of subjective values from the standpoint of representative theory are formulated: 1) the rating scale as a modified scale of ranks, 2) the method of organization of the measurement process as a method of alternative assessment of expert preferences.

that regulate the criteria for verifying school performance, as well as the development of alternative assessments with their students.

Further research is needed to determine whether contextual features of farmers’ markets and alternative assessments of quality, such as taste and freshness, affect consumers’ fruit, and vegetable consumption.

Summary Study aim: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of astudent-centered approach and alternative assessments on students’ learning domains (i.

Despite extensive research on portfolio assessment, not much attention has been paid to its wider implementation in EFL writing settings where alternative assessment is rarely encouraged.

Alternative assessment is any type of assessment other than standardized tests/ achievement tests.

The more criteria and alternative assessments arise, the more difficult it will be for the lab work lecturers to determine the priority of lab work participants' scores.

This paper focuses on improving the writing skill through the application of strategies based on alternative assessment to EFL students in a private university of Ecuador.

This paper will explore and examine the notion and practice of using alternative assessments as a means to overcoming barriers to learning and success for under-represented groups, such as mature students returning to learning.