{"id":2150,"date":"2025-06-04T00:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T04:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbc\/?post_type=chapter&p=2150"},"modified":"2026-02-10T16:10:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:10:41","slug":"alternative-and-authentic-assessment-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbc\/chapter\/alternative-and-authentic-assessment-toolkit\/","title":{"raw":"Alternative and Authentic Assessment Toolkit","rendered":"Alternative and Authentic Assessment Toolkit"},"content":{"raw":"
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The 4 A's of Authentic Assessment<\/h2>\r\n

Anchored:<\/strong> Real-world tasks<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Active:<\/strong> Performance-based, creative tasks<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Assessable:<\/strong> Clear criteria, rubrics, transparency<\/span><\/p>\r\n

AI-Aware:<\/strong> Design with or against AI intentionally<\/span><\/p>\r\n4As_Authentic_Assessment_Worksheet<\/a> (editable Word Doc) to help design new authentic assessments or re-design your existing assessments as authentic assessments.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n

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Examples of Redesigned Assessments by Discipline<\/strong><\/h2>\r\nExamples of assessments from a wide variety of disciplines (Nursing, Geography, English, Health Sciences, Biology, Social Work, Gender Studies) and how they could be redesigned or modified to be an authentic or alternative assessment using the 4 A's of Authentic Assessment Model above.\r\n\r\nExamples of Redesigned Assessments by Discipline<\/a>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n
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Course Learning Outcomes to Assessment Mapping Worksheet<\/h2>\r\nUse this worksheet to align your course learning outcomes (CLOs) with corresponding assessments. Mapping outcomes to assessments ensures each learning goal is intentionally supported, and it helps identify gaps, redundancies, or opportunities for authentic assessment.\r\n\r\nCourse Learning Outcomes_to_Assessment_Mapping_Worksheet<\/a>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n
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Bloom's Taxonomy to Help Design Learning Outcomes and Assessments<\/h2>\r\nThe University of Arkansas has a great resource detailing Bloom's Taxonomy.\u00a0<\/a>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n
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Using Microsoft Co-Pilot to reDesign Assessments as Authentic Assessments (Prompts)<\/h2>\r\nUsing Copilot to Redesign Assessments<\/a>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n

Acknowledgement<\/h1>\r\nGenerative artificial intelligence was used to support the production of this chapter.<\/em>\r\n

OpenAI ChatGPT. (June 2025).\u00a0 [Large language model]. https:\/\/chat.openai.com\/chat<\/a><\/p>","rendered":"

\n

The 4 A’s of Authentic Assessment<\/h2>\n

Anchored:<\/strong> Real-world tasks<\/span><\/p>\n

Active:<\/strong> Performance-based, creative tasks<\/span><\/p>\n

Assessable:<\/strong> Clear criteria, rubrics, transparency<\/span><\/p>\n

AI-Aware:<\/strong> Design with or against AI intentionally<\/span><\/p>\n

4As_Authentic_Assessment_Worksheet<\/a> (editable Word Doc) to help design new authentic assessments or re-design your existing assessments as authentic assessments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

Examples of Redesigned Assessments by Discipline<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Examples of assessments from a wide variety of disciplines (Nursing, Geography, English, Health Sciences, Biology, Social Work, Gender Studies) and how they could be redesigned or modified to be an authentic or alternative assessment using the 4 A’s of Authentic Assessment Model above.<\/p>\n

Examples of Redesigned Assessments by Discipline<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

Course Learning Outcomes to Assessment Mapping Worksheet<\/h2>\n

Use this worksheet to align your course learning outcomes (CLOs) with corresponding assessments. Mapping outcomes to assessments ensures each learning goal is intentionally supported, and it helps identify gaps, redundancies, or opportunities for authentic assessment.<\/p>\n

Course Learning Outcomes_to_Assessment_Mapping_Worksheet<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

Bloom’s Taxonomy to Help Design Learning Outcomes and Assessments<\/h2>\n

The University of Arkansas has a great resource detailing Bloom’s Taxonomy.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

Using Microsoft Co-Pilot to reDesign Assessments as Authentic Assessments (Prompts)<\/h2>\n

Using Copilot to Redesign Assessments<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Acknowledgement<\/h1>\n

Generative artificial intelligence was used to support the production of this chapter.<\/em><\/p>\n

OpenAI ChatGPT. (June 2025).\u00a0 [Large language model]. https:\/\/chat.openai.com\/chat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1036,"menu_order":21,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2150","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":139,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2150\/revisions\/2409"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/139"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2150\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}