Free Resources and Tools for "Authentic" Assessment
New York's School of the Future shares their assessment plans and rubrics, classroom projects, schedules, web links, and other resources to help you implement "authentic" assessment today.

Note: The School of the Future is part of a network of New York schools that develops and uses its own assessment techniques, referred to as DYOs. The school also uses Tasks on Demand, or unannounced assessments that do not provide supports for the students, in order to measure their learning at regular intervals.
Do Your Own (DYO) Assessment Examples, Rubrics, Data, and Data Analysis
Examples of criteria used in authentic assessment
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Example of a DYO Task for a Sixth Grade Science Microscope Observation Exercise
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Narrative Analysis of the Data Collected from a DYO in Sixth Grade Science
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Examples of DYO Tasks on Demand for Ninth Grade Language Arts
Skills Spirals and Tracking Sheets
Ideas for moving curriculum into a circular pattern and tracking performance to expose students to a wide variety of topics over and over again as the material gets more challenging
SOF's Instuctional Tools for Teachers
Lesson planning guides, date-driven decision making tools, discussion protocols, and teacher observation forms
Tools for Developing a High School Humanities Project -- Persepolis
Rubrics, organizers, and lessons plans for a high school graphic novel project
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Sample Graphic Novel Lesson Plan with a Focus on Visual Analysis
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Sample Graphic Novel Lesson Plan with a Focus on the Summative Accountable Talk
Schedules and Other Resources
Websites and Readings
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Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom Lisa Delpit (2006) The New Press
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"Thinking Algebraically: Promoting Rigorous Mathematics for All Students" (2008) NEA Policy Brief
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The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons from a Small School in Harlem Debbie Meier (1996) Beacon Press
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Assessing Writers Carl Anderson (2005) Heinemann
School Of The Future
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