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The Case for Authentic Tasks in Content Literacy

The Reading Teacher, 2011
Motivation, 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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LiveFace: A Multi-task CNN for Fast Face-Authentication

2018 17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2018
Modern 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, Xin Li 0080, Mooi Choo Chuah   +2 more
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Authentic Tasks in a Standards-Based World

The Mathematics Teacher, 2012
The Meeting for Lunch problem exemplifies how standards provide more than an outline of daily activities for an entire school year.
Michael Todd Edwards, Suzanne R. Harper, Dana C. Cox   +2 more
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Enhancing Student Learning in Negotiation Skills: Using Authentic and In-Authentic Assessment Tasks

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
The 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, Julian Ehrlich, Janis Wardrop   +2 more
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Text and task authenticity in the EFL classroom

ELT Journal, 2001
There 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, 2012
Leung 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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Authenticity as a Task

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2023
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Fixed Tasks for Continuous Authentication via Smartphone

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, 2023
Vincenzo Gattulli, Donato Impedovo, Tonino Palmisano, Lucia Sarcinella   +3 more
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The eye of the beholder: authenticity in an embedded assessment task

Language Testing, 2001
Authenticity is now firmly established as a central concern in test design and test validation (Bachman, 1990). However, there is disagreement about what authenticity is and about the degree of authenticity that can realistically be achieved. This article explores the theoretical and practical issues surrounding authenticity in course-based assessment,
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Integrating authentic assessment tasks in work integrated learning hospitality internships

Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
Julie Nyanjom, Edmund Goh, Elaine Chiao Ling Yang   +2 more
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