In practice, the steps of the alignment process will overlap. The crucial question is whether classroom teaching and learning activities support the standards and assessments. System alignment also includes the link between other school, district, and state resources. An assessment that requires students to generate a response to a question rather than choose from a set of responses provided to them. Ideally, alternative assessment requires students to actively accomplish complex and significant tasks, while bringing to bear prior knowledge, recent learning, and relevant skills to solve realistic or authentic problems.
Alternative assessments are usually one key element of an assessment system .
In analytic scoring, individual scores for each dimension are scored and reported. An overall impression of quality may be included in analytic scoring. A sample of student work that exemplifies a specific level of performance. Raters use anchors to score student work, usually comparing the student performance to the anchor. The process of gathering, describing, or quantifying information about performance.