Assessment – Postsecondary

Resources for Designing High-Quality Authentic Assessments

Designing authentic assessment is essential to anchor student learning. Authentic assessments provide opportunities for students to apply their learning and demonstrate proficiency in global competence.

To develop authentic assessments, start by taking “Faculty Module 6: Assessment for Global Understanding”, a short 15-minute online professional development module that is part of the Preparing Community College Students for a Global Economy, program.

• Global Career Ready Practices: A look at the global aspects of the Career Ready Practices developed by Advance CTE. The Global Career Ready Practice Rubrics help students self-assess their skills and help educators scaffold the learning of global employability skills with consistent, quality feedback.
• Postsecondary Global Leadership Performance Outcomes are aligned to the four domains of global competence and help instructors design curriculum, instruction, and assessment to teach global competence.
• ACTE Quality CTE Framework: This framework from ACTE helps answer the questions: What is high-quality CTE? This voluntary tool can be used for program self-evaluation, program improvement and to encourage secondary-postsecondary collaboration.
• Internationalizing CTE Self-Reflection Tool: The Longview Foundation created a self-reflection tool to assist institutions and CTE programs in their internationalization efforts.