Authentic Assessment Essay

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Authentic Assessment What was this assessment all about? How do I feel about this one? How this assessment differs from traditional assessment? Is it better to use than the traditional assessment? Who can benefit from it – the teacher, the student or both? The concept of authentic assessment is not new to us. Even we are using the traditional assessment, we sometimes not aware that we are using an authentic assessment. For example, the teacher has his students to make a project e.g a map of the Philippines using indigenous materials. Although it seems like traditional, it is actually an authentic evaluation. You are letting your student to use their capabilities in such situation. An unknown author from the website http://www.deakin.edu.au/ states that the notion of authentic assessment is not new. In some discipline areas, students have always been required to develop products and/or perform realistic tasks in order to demonstrate mastery. In many disciplines, students' demonstration of the mastery of various domains of learning objectives has not necessarily equated with a demonstration of their capacities in real-world settings. Thus, assessment for mastery should not necessarily be equated with the assessment of learning in authentic learning situations. It emphasizes that teacher must not conclude that the learning of the student will end on what they have thought. Maybe a student is one of the low performing student in the class but it is not mean that he won’t able to cope up with the other activities that you gave them. To support this example, http://www.deakin.edu.au/ said that any method used to assess students' mastery of narrowly specified capabilities, does not preclude using methods designed to more comprehensively assess complex capabilities, but not to a mastery level. Authentic assessment has become increasingly popular, as a perception has grown

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