Sandra Solco

University of Salerno

Competitiveness, inclusion, and authentic assessment.

Key Words

Authentic assessment, competitiveness, inclusiveness and skills.

This article examines three aspects: competitiveness, inclusion and authentic

assessment.

The article begins with a refection about the Regulation of the Evaluation system of Invalsi.

The aim of this article is to demonstrate that only through an authentic assessment of skills is possible to establish what are the strategic skills necessary for the citizens of today and tomorrow.

The article explains necessary skills to live consciously in order to achieve a concrete inclusion of all citizens, through a assessment examination of the Wiggins’

theory.

To do an authentic assessment it is necessary to establish not only

"what you know", but "what you can do with what you know."

The article starts from the epistemological assumption that it is necessary to reassert the centrality of school as educative agency aimed to create culture rather than broadcast it. We speak not about an abstract culture, but about a situated and concrete culture, which is essential to have success in the working world.

To create culture is necessary to start from the basic skills of each person and spread in the end a "culture of assessment".

Valutazione

autentica

Prestazione/performance

Feed-back

revisione

The system of authentic assessment is:

designed to improve student performance and teacher, it is based on tasks, criteria and standards, known both by students and teachers, while tests generally used at school require that its questions are kept secret;

to improve student performance during all learning process. So that standards, once considered very high and only reachable by someone, become reasonable expectations for many students, and they provide useful feedback to students, teachers, leaders, and policy makers .

People formed by this kind of school will be able to meet the challenges of social, economic and cultural world, they will create new job opportunities because they have a solid cultural background and especially. Citizen will use an integrated skills, in this way they can live consciously and they can raise themselves and others around them, they will ultimately be competitive and able to create a

competitive society of the future.

 

Example of authentic test to assess multiple skills:

Theme: development of a balanced diet for you.

Skills assessed in this test Basic competences in science and technology Basic skills of mathematics Communication in the mother tongue Digital competence Learning to learn

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