Authentic Intellectual Work Article

submitted by Lawrence Kohn

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Description: Authentic Intellectual Work (AIW) is a construct developed by Dr. Fred Newmann from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It focuses on authenticity in instruction, creation of assessment tasks, and the scoring of the student work that comes from the tasks.


Recommendations for how this resource may be used: The article may be used for a text-based discussion on AIW to familiarize educators with this concept so they might consider using the work in their own curriculum design.

Attributed credits or authors: Dr. Fred Newmann