The Reflect topic to this module is: "Do you believe that authentic assessment is possible in every subject area? Can students at every grade level demonstrate mastery through authentic assessment? Why or why not? It it practical to ask teachers to complete these types of activities in the current, high stakes testing environment?"

This question is really tough to think on. Do I believe it is possible in every subject area? I really think it gets tough to have authentic assessment in certain Special Subject Areas. How do you do authentic assessment in a Physical Education class? Kids can re-explain techniques, but how do you really show some of this? As well as all kids are at different physical levels so what does not appear to be very well performed physical activity, might actually be a modified version that supports the abilities of that one particular person.

Can every student at every grade level demonstrate mastery through authentic assessment? I believe the answer to this is yes, but I do believe it is harder at the younger age as they do not posses all the skills that older children posses.

I personally feel this type of assessment should not be performed for every learning objective in a classroom. I think it should be performed once in a while on some learning objectives, but if you did it on every learning objective, it would be too time consuming for our teachers. What would be a great outcome to this type of final assessment is that you could find the actual point where a student is losing a concept, as opposed to thinking they just don’t get the whole picture. I think this could lead to a whole different level of RTI for our kids.