MODULE 4 Assessment Strategies for

Social Studies 1
Activities
Direction: If possible, put your activity in a word document and send it to your instructor via
Google classroom. If it’s not possible, write your activity in a one whole sheet of paper and take
a picture of it and send it to your instructor via Google classroom or Facebook messenger.

Individual Activity 1 (20 points)

1. Recall five traditional assessment styles and five authentic assessment styles that your
teachers (in elementary, high school, senior high school, college) had given you, and
then assess their positive and negative outcomes.

Traditional Assessment Positive Outcomes Negative Outcomes

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Traditional Assessment Positive Outcomes Negative Outcomes

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Individual Activity 2 (20 points)

1. Complete the table below by answering the question: How will this assessment enhance
the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor skill of the learners?

Cognitive Skills Affective Skills Psychomotor Skills

Traditional
Assessment

Authentic
Assessment

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 Assessment (20 points)
Online Chapter Quiz 4 (OCQ4): Link for OCQ4 will be posted in Google Classroom assigned in
this Subject a day before the end of the 3 week duration for this module. Please reach out to
me via my contact number or email indicated at the front page, if you won’t be able to answer
the Pre-Assessment due to lack of Internet Connectivity of other difficulties. I will provide you an
alternative way to answer this Pre-Assessment.

True or False
Directions: Write T if the statement is true and F if the statement is false.
_________ 1. Traditional assessment can mostly be seen as a paper-and-pen type of test.
_________ 2. Traditional assessment can also exemplify authentic learning.
_________ 3. Authentic tasks always reflect lifelong learning.
_________ 4. Authentic assessment is better compared to traditional assessment.
_________ 5. The most important part of traditional assessment is its reliability.
_________ 6. Authentic assessment is usually given at the end of the unit or grading.
_________ 7. Traditional assessment requires more time and money.
_________ 8. Authentic assessment encourages collaboration.
_________ 9. Traditional assessment is individualists in nature.
_________ 10. Traditional and authentic assessment is both relevant.

Evaluation
The students will write an essay that answers the questions:

1. Why is it important to know the nature and essence of assessment?

2. How better plan for assessment?

3. As a would-be teacher, create your own assessment philosophy and explain

comprehensively the reason why you chose that philosophy.

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