ABSTRACT

Authentic assessment activities are those that afford learners opportunities to practice finding solutions to real-world issues and challenges, so that upon graduation they are able to apply these skills to issues and challenges they will face in their workplaces. When learners are able to do this successfully, they are judged as job ready. However, ascertaining the impacts of authentic assessment activities upon the achievement of learning outcomes and the development of desirable graduate attributes is challenging. How can we know for certain that our assessment activities have had the desired impact? A possible pathway is to examine the impacts of authentic assessment activities on the development of graduate attributes. The study reported in this paper offers insights on how, and in which ways, the design of authentic assessment activities in an online professional development program for practitioners influenced the development of generic graduate attributes.

摘要

真实的评估活动让学习者有机会练习寻找现实问题和挑战的解决方案，以便他们在毕业后能够将这些技能应用于他们将在工作场所面临的问题和挑战。当学习者能够成功地做到这一点时，他们被判断为工作准备好了。然而，确定真实的评估活动对学习成果的实现和理想的毕业生属性的发展的影响是具有挑战性的。我们如何确定我们的评估活动已经产生了预期的影响？一个可能的途径是检查真实的评估活动对毕业生素质发展的影响。本文报告的研究提供了关于如何以及以何种方式，