The Senior Project: Authentic Assessment at Hodgson Vocational/Technical High School. A Series on Authentic Assessment and Accountability.
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| Title: | The Senior Project: Authentic Assessment at Hodgson Vocational/Technical High School. A Series on Authentic Assessment and Accountability. |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Ancess, Jacqueline, Darling-Hammond, Linda, Columbia Univ., New York, NY. Teachers Coll. National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools and Teaching. |
| Availability: | NCREST, Box 110, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 ($8). |
| Peer Reviewed: | N |
| Page Count: | 58 |
| Publication Date: | 1994 |
| Sponsoring Agency: | DeWitt Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund, Pleasantville, NY. Leon Lowenstein Foundation, New York, NY. National Center for Research in Vocational Education, Berkeley, CA. Aaron Diamond Foundation, Inc., New York, NY. |
| Document Type: | Reports - Evaluative |
| Descriptors: | Educational Assessment, Experiential Learning, Graduation Requirements, High School Seniors, High Schools, Industrial Arts, Performance Based Assessment, School Restructuring, Shop Curriculum, Student Projects, Test Construction, Vocational High Schools, Woodworking |
| Abstract: | Hodgson Vocational Technical High School, New Castle County (Delaware), has recently converted from being a shared-time vocational center to being a full-time academic-vocational-technical school. As part of its restructuring, the school instituted a Senior Project, a three-part authentic assessment that combines a research paper, a shop product, and a public, formal, oral presentation. Students select a faculty advisor at the end of their junior year, and the student and advisor work together to orchestrate student progress through the project in a way similar to a dissertation process. The project supports a number of authentic teaching and learning opportunities as it encourages integrated vocational and academic learning. An intellectual component is added to traditional competence- and performance-based vocational assessment. Its most powerful lesson is that work should be meaningful rather than perfunctory. An appendix presents a sample student paper. (Contains 3 references.) (SLD) |
| Entry Date: | 1995 |
| Accession Number: | ED378218 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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