What is Authentic

Assessment?
Give a concrete example of an
Authentic Assessment in
1. Math
2. Science
3. English
4. Filipino
5. Social Studies

On a clean sheet of paper,

answer the questions.
 Authentic
Assessment
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 “People still think that assessment is what
you do after teaching and learning are
over as opposed to thinking of
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assessment as giving feedback to help

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you to achieve your goal.”
• Grant Wiggins, Educational Consultant
 What is Assessment?

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Identifying Gathering Organizing Interpreting

Quantitative and Qualitative information

about what learners know and can do.
 What is Alternative
Assessment?
• Refers to the use of alternative or non-traditional
assessment tools or strategies to collect information
on student learning

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Process-oriented

Product-oriented
 Principles in Using Alternative
Assessment
Assessment is both process and product oriented
Assessment should focus on higher-order
cognitive outcomes
Assessment can include a measure of

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noncognitive learning outcomes
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Assessment should reflect real-life or real-
world contexts
Assessment must be comprehensive and holistic

Assessment should lead to student learning

 What is Authentic
Assessment?

Method of assessing the students’ Aims to develop and measure

ability to apply knowledge in multiple skills.
performing a task that is exactly Values the learning process
what is existing in real life. as much as the product.

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(Salandanan, 2005)
An Instructional Design Workshop)

Requires students’ active generation of

a response that is observable, either
directly or indirectly, via a permanent
product.
(UP NISMED: Intel Innovation for Education)
Traditional Assessment Authentic Assessment
Sole emphasis on OUTCOMES Assessment of PROCESS
ISOLATED skills INTEGRATED skills
ISOLATED facts APPLICATION of knowledge
PAPER AND PENCIL tasks AUTHENTIC tasks
DECONTEXTUALIZED tasks CONTEXTUALIZED tasks
A SINGLE correct answer MANY correct answer
SECRET standards PUBLIC standards

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SECRET criteria PUBLIC criteria
INDIVIDUALS GROUPS
AFTER instruction DURING instruction
LITTLE feedback CONSIDERABLE feedback
OBJECTIVE tests PERFORMANCE-BASED tests
STANDARDIZED tests INFORMAL tests
EXTERNAL evaluation Student SELF-EVALUTION
SINGLE assessments MULTIPLE assessments
SPORADIC CONTINUAL
CONCLUSIVE RECURSIVE