Using Assessment Data as Research Evidence to Improve Teaching and Learning

Using assessment data as classroom research evidence is incredibly beneficial. It explains the assessment data objectives aligned to assessment tasks, and to use assessment data as a research evidence for their projects. Regardless of the type of authentic or alternative assessment, consistent in assessing student performance on these measures, one must create clear guidelines and have these guidelines match outcomes, and ultimately match the criteria outlined in an assessment rubric. This rubric can serves as a way to self-assess your project. In Adems example, the assessments were useful sources of evidence, the compositions, the traditional assessments, and the student performances including improvisation. This example is useful because it is important to see that not only are more traditional assessments useful, but so are more authentic performance measures and those where students are given opportunities to creative.