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Chapter 2: Authentic Assessment

The document discusses authentic assessment and how it differs from traditional assessment, noting that authentic assessment requires students to perform real-world tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of skills, while traditional assessment relies on multiple choice tests. It provides definitions and characteristics of authentic assessment, comparing attributes of traditional versus authentic assessment and emphasizing that both can complement each other.

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Chapter 2: Authentic Assessment

The document discusses authentic assessment and how it differs from traditional assessment, noting that authentic assessment requires students to perform real-world tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of skills, while traditional assessment relies on multiple choice tests. It provides definitions and characteristics of authentic assessment, comparing attributes of traditional versus authentic assessment and emphasizing that both can complement each other.

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AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT

OF STUDENT LEARNING
ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING 2

PREPARED BY:
KATHLEEN GRACE C. MAGNO, MAED
CHAPTER 2. AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT:
MEANING CHARACTERISTICS AND PRACTICES

ASSESSMENT
- Refers to the process of gathering data and
information about what students know and can do.
EVALUATION
- Refers to the task of interpreting, forming
conclusions and making judgments which was
gathered in the process of assessment.
CHAPTER 2. AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT:
MEANING CHARACTERISTICS AND PRACTICES

TESTING
- It is an instrument of assessment.
- A test is an assessment tool that reflects the records
of the students’ learning outcomes.
MARK
- These are reports of the results of evaluation.
CHAPTER 2. AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT:
MEANING CHARACTERISTICS AND PRACTICES

WHY AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT?


• Tests are able to give a ‘snap shot’ of what the
students already know but fail to provide a ‘moving
picture.’
• Right answers on paper-and-pencil tests are not
necessarily indicators of critical thinking.
CHAPTER 2. AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT:
MEANING CHARACTERISTICS AND PRACTICES

WHY AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT?


• It is good if students have mastery of basic
knowledge, but if not applied through skills, then
they have not yet been prepared for the real world.
• Hence, the need for authentic assessment.
CHAPTER 2. AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT:
MEANING CHARACTERISTICS AND PRACTICES

DEFINITIONS OF AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT (AA)


• “A form of assessment in which students are asked
to perform real-world tasks that demonstrate
meaningful application of essential knowledge and
skills.” – Jon Mueller
CHAPTER 2. AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT:
MEANING CHARACTERISTICS AND PRACTICES

DEFINITIONS OF AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT (AA)


• “…engaging and worthy problems or questions of
importance, in which students must use knowledge
to fashion performances effectively and creatively.
The tasks are either replicas of or analogous to the
kind of problems faced by adult citizens and
consumers or professionals in the field.” – Grant
Wiggins
CHAPTER 2. AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT:
MEANING CHARACTERISTICS AND PRACTICES

DEFINITIONS OF AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT (AA)


• “Performance (authentic) assessments call upon the
examinee to demonstrate specific skills and
competencies; that is, to apply the skills and
knowledge they have mastered.” – Richard Striggins
CHAPTER 2. AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT:
MEANING CHARACTERISTICS AND PRACTICES

DEFINITIONS OF AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT (AA)


• “Authentic assessments are products and/or
performances correlated with real life experiences.”
– Newton Public Schools
CHAPTER 2. AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT:
MEANING CHARACTERISTICS AND PRACTICES

OTHER NAMES FOR AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT (AA)


• Performance assessment
• Alternative assessment
• Direct assessment
CHAPTER 2. AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT:
MEANING CHARACTERISTICS AND PRACTICES

CHARACTERISTICS OF AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT (AA)


1. AA starts with clear and definite criteria of
performance made known to the students.
2. AA is criterion-referenced (identifies strengths
and weaknesses) rather than norm-referenced
(compares/ranks the levels of performance).
CHAPTER 2. AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT:
MEANING CHARACTERISTICS AND PRACTICES
CHARACTERISTICS OF AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT (AA)
3. AA requires students to make their own answers
to questions rather than using selected-response;
requires them to use a range of HOTS.
4. AA often emphasizes performance and so
students are required to demonstrates
knowledge, skills and competencies in
appropriate situations.
CHAPTER 2. AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT:
MEANING CHARACTERISTICS AND PRACTICES

CHARACTERISTICS OF AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT (AA)


5. AA encourages both teacher and students to
determine their rate if progress in cooperatively
attaining the desired LO.
6. AA does NOT encourage rote learning and passive
taking of tests; instead are required to demonstrate
analytical skills, integration, creativity,
collaboration, social and communication skills.
CHAPTER 2. AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT:
MEANING CHARACTERISTICS AND PRACTICES

CHARACTERISTICS OF AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT (AA)


7. AA changes the role of students as passive test
takers into becoming active and involved
participants in assessment activities that
emphasize on what they are capable of doing
instead of their weaknesses. It results to
diminished fear of tests and improvement of
self-esteem.
CHAPTER 2. AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT:
MEANING CHARACTERISTICS AND PRACTICES
PHASES OF AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT (AA)
Phase I:
Identify desired
learning outcome.
Phase V: Phase II:
Evaluate results to Determine criteria and
determine attainment of acceptable evidences
coutcome and ensure of performance.
continuous improvement Phase III:
Phase IV:
Implement supporting
Impelement learning experiences and
assessment strategies. instructional activities.
CHAPTER 2. AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT:
MEANING CHARACTERISTICS AND PRACTICES

TRADITIONAL ASSESSMENT
It is commonly associated with pre-determined
choice measures of assessment such as alternate-
response type or supply-type (simple recall).
CHAPTER 2. AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT:
MEANING CHARACTERISTICS AND PRACTICES
PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF TRADITIONAL ASSESSMENT
1. A school’s mission is to develop useful citizens
2. To be a useful citizen, one must possess a certain body of
knowledge and skills
3. The school is entrusted to teach this body of knowledge and skills
4. To determine if the students have acquired these knowledge and
skills, the school must test (paper-and-pencil) the students on
these knowledge and skills.
CHAPTER 2. AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT:
MEANING CHARACTERISTICS AND PRACTICES
PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT
1. A school’s mission is to develop useful citizens
2. To be a useful citizen, one has to be capable of performing useful
tasks in the real world
3. The school’s duty is to help students develop proficiency in
performing the tasks that they will be required to perform after
graduation in the work place
4. The school must then require students to perform tasks that
duplicate or imitate real-world situations
CHAPTER 2. AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT:
MEANING CHARACTERISTICS AND PRACTICES
TRADITIONAL vs. AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT
ATTRIBUTES TRADITIONAL AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT
ASSESSMENT
1. Action/Options Selecting a response Performing a task
2. Setting Contrived/ Imagined Simulation/ Real-life
3. Method Recall/ Recognition Construction/ Application
4. Focus Teacher-structured Student-structured
5. Outcome Indirect evidence Direct evidence
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MEANING CHARACTERISTICS AND PRACTICES

Authentic assessment complements traditional


assessment. Teachers do not have to select between
AA and TA. Mastery of knowledge and skills must still
be encouraged because it is the foundation upon
which activities students required to demonstrate
and tasks to perform in the real-world, are built.
ACTIVITY 2.1
ACTIVITY 2.2
Choose among the following activities:
a. Create an acronym…
b. Compose a short poem…
c. Construct a hugot…
… about any concept/s learned in this chapter.

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