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The Case for Authentic Tasks in Content Literacy
The Reading Teacher, 2011Motivation, academic vocabulary, and the role of teachers have been themes of previous Content Literacy columns. In this installment, we suggest that the tasks, or assignments, students complete are an important aspect of content literacy because they influence students' understandings of content and reading.
Seth A. Parsons, Allison E. Ward
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An Authentic Task That Models Quadratics
Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2015Selling muffins introduced students to quadratic functions. Communicating with tables, graphs, and formulas helped solidify their understanding.
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Towards authenticity of task in test development
Language Testing, 2001This article describes a working model used to determine the Target Language Use (TLU) (Bachman and Palmer, 1996) in a Language for Specific Purpose (LSP) test project: The Listening Summary Translation Exam in Taiwanese (LSTE/T). The purpose of the LSTE/T was to evaluate the summary translation ability of applicants who want to work as linguists in ...
Weiping M. Wu, Charles W. Stansfield
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Studying the Effect of Human Cognition on User Authentication Tasks
2013This paper studies the effect of individual differences in human cognition on user performance in authentication tasks. In particular, a text-based password and a recognition-based graphical authentication mechanism were deployed in the frame of an ecological valid experimental design, to investigate the effect of individuals’ different cognitive ...
Belk, Marios +7 more
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Authentic Tasks in a Standards-Based World
The Mathematics Teacher, 2012The Meeting for Lunch problem exemplifies how standards provide more than an outline of daily activities for an entire school year.
Michael Todd Edwards +2 more
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LiveFace: A Multi-task CNN for Fast Face-Authentication
2018 17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2018Modern face recognition systems are accurate but they are vulnerable to different types of spoofing attacks. To solve this problem, conventional face authentication systems typically employ an additional module to analyze the liveness of the input faces before feeding it into the face recognition module.
Xiaowen Ying +2 more
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International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2017
This study begins the task of mapping out two approaches that may be helpful in overcoming incorrect responses to conservation tasks, focusing on the non-conserved quantity. The incorrect responses, which were the result of over-generalizations of conservation, and gradually increased with age despite formal knowledge and minor perceptual input, were ...
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This study begins the task of mapping out two approaches that may be helpful in overcoming incorrect responses to conservation tasks, focusing on the non-conserved quantity. The incorrect responses, which were the result of over-generalizations of conservation, and gradually increased with age despite formal knowledge and minor perceptual input, were ...
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Enhancing Student Learning in Negotiation Skills: Using Authentic and In-Authentic Assessment Tasks
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012The literature on teaching/learning of negotiation skills presents two assumptions. First, planning for negotiations – or improving one’s planning – best predicts more effective negotiation practice. This suggests the need to tie planning to assessment, particularly as developing negotiation plans is the most ‘authentic’ assessment task a student can ...
Peter Sheldon +2 more
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Text and task authenticity in the EFL classroom
ELT Journal, 2001There is now a general consensus in language teaching that the use of authentic materials in the classroom is beneficial to the learning process. However, on the question of when authentic materials can be introduced into the classroom there is less agreement.
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Test-task Authenticity: The Multiple Perspectives
Changing English, 2012Leung and Lewkowicz remind us that the debate over the past two decades that is most relevant to ELT (English languge teaching) pedagogy and curriculum concerns test-task authenticity. This paper first reviews how the authenticity debate in the literature of second language acquisition, pedagogy and testing has evolved.
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