Contextualized &

Decontextualized
Assessment
Reporting by: Justine A. Gotico
Contextualized Assessment
• The focus is on the students construction of functioning
knowledge and the students performance in application of
knowledge in the real work context of the discipline area.
• Assessment tasks reflect the goal of learning. It uses
performance – base tasks which are authentic in nature.
Contextualized Assessment
• In addition it describes assessment practices which
measure skills and knowledge in dealing with specific
situation or perform specific task which the students have
identified as important and meaningful to them.
• Application of the skills and knowledge must be in the
context of the real world as possible.
Decontextualized Assessment
• Assessment includes written exams and term paper which
are suitable for assessing declarative knowledge, and do
not necessarily have a direct connection to real life
context. (Biggs, 2011)
• It focuses on declarative knowledge and/or procedural
knowledge in artificial situations detached from the real
work context.