Authentic Assessment

Intended Learning Outcome/s: At the end of the lesson, the

pre-service teacher can:
1. Discuss the nature and characteristics of authentic
assessment and related terms.
2. Differentiate authentic assessment and traditional
assessment.
 Authentic Assessment
- Refers to the use of alternative or non-traditional assessment
strategies or tools to collect information on student learning.

- “Are products and/or performances correlated with real life

experiences”. - Newton Public Schools
 Nature of Authentic Assessment
- Students are ask to perform real world tasks.
- Students engage in answering worthy problems or
questions of importance in which students use
knowledge to fashion performances effectively and
creatively.
- Students demonstrate specific skills and competencies.
- Encourages learner - centered class where the teacher’s
major role is to help students accept responsibility for their
learning and became self evaluators.
 Characteristics of AA
1. AA starts with clear and definite criteria of
performance made known to the students.
2. AA is criterion - referenced rather than norm-referenced.

3. AA requires students to make their own answers to questions

rather than select from the given options.

4. AA often emphasizes the performance of the students.

 Characteristics of AA
5. AA encourages both teacher and students to
determine the rate of their progress in cooperatively
attaining the desired learning outcomes.
6. AA requires the students to demonstrate analytical skills,
creativity, and ability to work in a group.

7. AA changes the role of students from passive to being active

and involved participants in assessment activities to emphasize
what they are capable of doing.
 Related terms of AA
Performance Assessment

Alternative Assessment

Direct Assessment
 Principles 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 schools duty is to help students develop proficiency in
performing the tasks that they will be required to perform after
the graduation in the workplace.
4. The school must then require students to perform tasks that
duplicate or imitate real world situations.
 Principles of Authentic Assessment

5. Assessment is both process and product oriented.

6. Assessment should focus on Higher order cognitive
outcomes.
7. Assessment can include a measure of noncognitive learning
outcomes.

8. Assessment must be comprehensive and holistic.

 TA vs AA
Attributes TA AA
Action/Options Selecting Response Performing a task
Setting Contrived/imagined Simulation/Real Life
Method Recall/ Recognition Construction/application
Focus Teacher structured Student Structured
Outcome Indirect evidence Direct evidence