Social Context Challenges in Administering Authentic Assessments of Citizenship Competency

Abstract

The authentic assessment framework from Gulikers et al. (2004), its research situated in an adult vocational nursing program, called for the use of an authentic social context. This dimension is not typically included in authentic assessment models that focus on K-12 education but is closely aligned with citizenship education. This poster identifies moments in earlier phases of a design-based research study when classroom social context complicated teacher assessment of student citizenship competency and proposes to study how to mitigate for it.