Module Issues and Concern in Conventional Assessment

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This module is designed to bring students to the final phase of Assessment of
Student Learning 1. It deals with issues and concern in conventional assessment. More
specifically, this module discusses on the meaning of conventional assessment, differentiates
traditional and authentic assessments, and the advantages and disadvantages of traditional
assessment.
In this module, the students are expected to:
1. describe conventional assessment;
2. differentiate between traditional and authentic assessment.;
3. identify related issues and problems on conventional assessment; and
4. Organize the issues and match with their own recommendations.

This module is organized in one lesson alone.

Lesson1 Meaning of Conventional Assessment

The difference between Traditional and Authentic Assessment
Issue and Concern in Conventional Assessment

Introduction:

Hello! How are you today. Are you ready for module 7? This module is the final
phase of Assessment of Student Learning 1. Okay, In this module, you are challenged to:
• Describe conventional assessment
• Differentiate between traditional and authentic assessment
• Enumerate the advantages and disadvantages of traditional assessment.
• identify some related problems and relevant issues and concerns about
conventional assessment, and
• outline issues and concern in conventional assessment and organize those
issues and match with your recommendations.

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Learning Outcomes
• identify some problems and relevant issues and concerns about conventional
assessment, and
• outline issues and concern in conventional assessment and organize those issues
and match with recommendations,

Lesson 1
Issue and Concern in Conventional Assessment
In this lesson we’ll be dealing with some related issues and concern
regarding assessment. The purpose of assessment is to gather relevant information
about student performance or progress or to determine student interest to make
judgment about his/her learning process (www. theedadvocate.org Retrieved:
july15, 2020). However, are the assessments given to our students addressed their
individual capabilities and interests?
• This lesson brings you to describe conventional assessment,
differentiate the two methods used in conventional assessment, then
identify related issues and concern in conventional assessment.

Objectives:
• Describe conventional assessment
• Differentiate between traditional and authentic assessment
• identify some related problems and relevant issues and
concerns about conventional assessment, and
• outline issues and concern in conventional assessment and
organize those issues and match with your recommendations

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Activity

Activity1
Class, our activity today, is based on what you
learned from the previous topics about
assessments, kindly give your own description
of conventional assessment by filling the bubbles
below.

Conventional
assessment

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 Activity 2

Now, what is the difference between

traditional and authentic assessment? Fill the
bubbles below

Traditional assessment
Authentic Assessment

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Analysis
Activity 3
Now class, answer the following
questions: Write your answer on
the space provided..

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 1. Based on your experience as a student, do you think you are assessed by your teachers
according to your interest and capabilities? Why? Why not?

2. In general, how do you describe the assessment given to you by your teachers?

Activity3
Based on the questions in activity
3, kindly, identify the current
issues and concern in
conventional (current )
assessment. Write your answer
on the spaces below. Go!

1. _____________________
2.______________________
3. _____________________

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Abstraction

Meaning of Conventional Assessment

Conventional Assessment refers to traditional assessments of testing, usually
standardized and use pen and paper with multiple-choice, true or false or matching type test
items
Difference between authentic and alternative assessments
De Guzman- Santos ( 2007) says that alternative assessment or portfolio assessment is in
direct contrast to what is known as performance evaluation, traditional assessment, standardized
assessment or summative assessment. She added that alternative assessment includes authentic
assessment, integrative assessment, holistic assessment, assessment for learning and formative
assessment.
However, she postulates that to evaluate exactly what the student has learned, the
teacher must develop authentic assessment method that examines the student’s collective
abilities. She added that authentic assessment gives students situations that occur in the real-
world which require them to apply their relevant skills and knowledge.
Issues and concern in assessment
Singh (2014) has enumerated current issues in assessment:
• a weaker relationship between learning outcomes and assessment
• No right of the student to know how he/she has been assessed and graded.
• Lack of transparency in assessment system.
• Regular and prompt feedback on assessed work is missing.
• New philosophy with old systems.
• Little use of authentic assessment
• Classroom Assessment Technique (CATs) are rare.
• No involvement of students in the assessment process
• Most systems are still based on marks
• Grading system is generally criterion based
• Lesser stress on formative assessment (i.e. assessment for learning)
• As a result, there is a less focus on improvement in learning on a continuous basis.
• Students hardly received feed back to improve their learning
• Very less use of informal and alternative assessment

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 Application
Activity 4
Based on the current issues enumerated by Singh
(2014), choose at least two of those issues you are most
affected and experienced in your study and come up
with your own recommendations.
Write your answer on the spaces given below. Make
your recommendations doable.

Issues Recommendations

1.______________________ ________________________________
2._______________________ ________________________________
3. ______________________ _______________________________

Closure:
Thank you very much class for your cooperation, and patience in answering the
activities. God bless you all…

References

https:// resilienteducator.comclassroomresources
Montana State University: Traditional Assessment
SEDL: Comparing Traditional and Performance-based
Assessment
Singh, Anup K. (2014). Assessment: Current Status and Challenges. NIRMA University

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