Alternative assessments must meet same criteria of reliability and validity as standardized tests. Alternative assessments can not be one-event performance tests. The broader issue in the alternative assessment debate,Wiggins suggests, is what we are really doing is rethinking our purposes. Putting technology to the test. This article takes up the use of alternative assessments such as performance based assessment, the use of videos, writing portfolios, issues of technological equity, technology in assessment and professional development to change educator's views of assessment.
Work is done on a laser disk and follows a student through all the grades.
Growth over the long-term is then more visible. Students' photographs are scanned on the disk for permanent storage. It's a good score, just a bad grade. Kappan, September, 68-71. Plain talk about alternative assessment.