4. - refer to conventional methods of testing, usually standardized and use
pen and paper with multiple-choice, true or false or matching type test
items.
Traditional Assessment
Purpose:
- to evaluate if the students have learned the content;
- to determine whether or not the students are successful in acquiring
knowledge;
- to ascribe a grade for them; to rank and compare them against
standards or other learners
- Provides teachers a snapshot of what the students know
- Measures students’ knowledge of the content
5. - Requires students to demonstrate knowledge by selecting a
response/giving correct answers; usually tests students’ proficiency
through paper and pencil tests
- Students are asked to choose an answer from a set of questions (True
or False; multiple choice) to test knowledge of what has been taught.
- Provides indirect evidence of learning
- Requires students to practice cognitive ability to
recall/recognize/reconstruct body of knowledge that has been taught
- Tests and strengthens the students’ ability to recall/recognize and
comprehend content, but does not reveal the students’ true progress of
what they can do with the knowledge they acquired. Only the
students’ lower level of thinking skills, (knowledge and
comprehension), are tapped
Traditional Assessment
6. - Teachers serve as evaluators and students as the evaluatees: teacher-
structured
- Assessment is separated from teaching and learning. Test usually comes
after instruction to evaluate if the students have successfully learned the
content
- Provides limited ways for students to demonstrate what they have
learned
- Standardized; valid and reliable
- Curriculum drives assessment
Traditional Assessment
7. - refer to assessments wherein students are asked to perform real-world
tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of what they have
learned.
- evaluates the student’s collective skills and abilities to perform and
demonstrate the task in real-world situation for them to determine how
much they have learned with meaningful application. Performance test
is a measure which often makes use of manipulative materials to
develop students’ skills and abilities.
- the student is exposed to the real-world situation to perform his tasks
with the best of his skills and abilities.
Authentic Assessment
8. - Purpose:
- to measure students’ proficiency by asking them to perform real life-
tasks; to provide students many avenues to learn and demonstrate best
what they have learned; to guide instruction;
- to provide feedback and help students manage their own learning;
- to also evaluate students’ competency
Authentic Assessment
9. - Provides teachers a more complete picture of what the students know and
what they can do with what they know
- Measures students’ ability to apply knowledge of the content in real life
situations; ability to use/apply what they have learned in meaningful ways
- Requires students to demonstrate proficiency by performing relevant tasks
showing application of what has been learned
- Provides direct evidence of learning/competency; direct demonstration of
knowledge and skills by performing relevant tasks
- Provides opportunities for students to construct meaning/new knowledge
out of what has been taught
- Tests and strengthens the students’ ability to reason and analyze, synthesize,
and apply knowledge acquired; Students’ higher level of cognitive skills
(from knowledge and comprehension to analysis, synthesis, application, and
evaluation) are tapped in multiple ways.
Authentic Assessment
10. - Involves and engages the students in the teaching, learning and
assessment process: student structured
- Assessment is integrated with instruction. Assessment activities happen
all throughout instruction to help students improve their learning and
help teachers improve their teaching.
- Provides multiple avenues for students to demonstrate best what they
have learned
- Flexible and provides multiple acceptable ways of constructing
products or performance as evidence of learning
- Needs well defined criteria/rubrics and standards to achieve reliability
and validity
- Assessment drives curriculum and instruction.
Authentic Assessment
11. 1. Authentic assessment requires the students to perform meaningful
tasks in real-world situation.
2. It promotes the development of higher order thinking skills because
the evaluators including self and peer have to think wisely and precisely
the rating most appropriate to the students’ performance from excellent
down to poor.
3. It tenders direct evidence of application and construction of knowledge
and skills acquired. For instance, the student demonstrates and constructs
on paper mosaic projects made of waste papers or old new papers.
4. It includes portfolio collection of entries.
Characteristics of Authentic Assessment
12. Characteristics of Authentic Assessment
5. It demonstrates application of a particular knowledge and skills.
6. It fosters role-playing of the lessons learned by students which serves
as show window to them.
7. It identifies performance of students’ acquired skills and expertise.
Notably, community linkages is one of the seven domains of National
Competency-Based Teacher Standards (NCBTS). It is necessary that
teachers must reflect in their syllabi the seven domains of NCBTS.
8. It assesses directly holistic projects by multiple human judgement like
self, peer, subject teacher and teacher-adviser.
Authentic Assessment
13. Characteristics of Authentic Assessment
9. It trains the students to evaluate their own work as well as to their
peers.
10. It is designed on criterion—referenced measure rather than norm-
references measure.
-The strengths and weaknesses of the students have been identified
rather than compare students’ performance with other students.
Authentic Assessment
14. Distinctions Between Authentic Assessment and Traditional
Assessment
Authentic Assessment
a. personalized, natural and flexible
relevant to the students’ level of
difficulty, skills and abilities
b. fair because skills and abilities
are appropriate to the learners
c. give the student and peer the
chance to evaluate each other’s
work
d. identifies strengths and
weaknesses of the students
Traditional Assessment
a. impersonal and absolute owing
to uniformity of test without
regard to the skills and abilities of
the students
b. unfair since learners are forced
to accept the contexts of the tests
even if it is inappropriate
c. only the subject teacher
evaluates the performance
d. compares the performance of
students to others
15. Distinctions Between Authentic Assessment and Traditional
Assessment
Authentic Assessment
e. promotes good rapport between
the teacher and students
f. develops the students’ responses
because they are given task based
on real-world situations
g. gives students freedom to choose
evidence of good performance
h. use performance test in real-
world situation and portfolio
assessment
Traditional Assessment
e. has poor relationship between
teachers and students
f. requires the students to choose
only on the options prepared by
teachers
g. teacher prepares tests and the
students responds only to what is
asked
h. involves paper-and-pencil tests
16. Advantages of Traditional Assessment over Authentic
Assessment
1. Easy to score;
- Teachers can evaluate
students more quickly
and easily.
2. Less time and easier to
prepare; easy to
administer
3. Objective, reliable and
valid
4. Economical
Traditional
Assessment
Authentic
Assessment
1. Harder to evaluate
2. Time consuming; labor
intensive
- Sometimes, time and effort
spent exceed the benefits
3. Susceptible to unfairness,
subjectivity, lacking
objectivity, reliability, and
validity if not properly guided
by well-defined/clear criteria
or rubrics/standards
4. Less economical
17. Advantages of Authentic Assessment over Traditional
Assessment
1. Provides teachers with the true
picture of how and where their
students are in their learning;
- Gives more information about their
students’ strengths, weaknesses, needs
and preferences that aid them in
adjusting instruction towards
enhanced teaching and learning
2. Provides students many
alternatives/ways to demonstrate best
what they have learned; offers a wide
array of interesting and challenging
assessment activities
Authentic Assessment Traditional
Assessment
1. Provides teachers with
just a snapshot of what the
students have truly learned
2. Provides students
limited options to
demonstrate what they
have learned, usually
limited to pencil and paper
tests
18. Advantages of Authentic Assessment over Traditional
Assessment
3. Assessment is integrated with
instruction
4. Reveals and enriches the students’
high level cognitive skills: from
knowledge and comprehension to
analysis, synthesis, application and
evaluation
5. Enhances students’ ability to apply
skills and knowledge to real lie
situations; taps high order cognitive
and problem solving.
6. Teaches the test
Authentic Assessment Traditional
Assessment
3. Assessment is separate from
instruction
4. Reveals and strengthens only
the students’ low level cognitive
skills: knowledge and
comprehension
5. Assesses only the lower level
thinking/cognitive skills: focuses
only on the students’ ability to
memorize and recall information
6. Hides the test
19. Advantages of Authentic Assessment over Traditional
Assessment
7. Student-structured: students are
more engaged in their learning;
assessment results guide instruction
8. Oftentimes involves students
working in groups hence promotes
team work, collaborative and
interpersonal skills
9. Reduces anxiety and creates a more
relaxed happy atmosphere that boosts
learning
Authentic Assessment Traditional
Assessment
7. Teacher-structured:
teachers direct and act as
evaluators; students merely
answer the assessment tool.
8. Involves students working
alone; promotes
competitiveness
9. Invokes feelings of anxiety
detrimental to learning
20. Advantages of Authentic Assessment over Traditional
Assessment
10. Time is flexible
11. Focuses on the growth of the learner
12 Learners express their understanding
of the learning content using their
preferred multiple forms of intelligences
13. Provides parents and community
with more observable products, proofs
of the students’ learning which motivate
them to support their kids’ learning
more
Authentic Assessment Traditional
Assessment
10. Time is fixed and limited;
students are time-pressured
to finish the test
11. Focuses on one form of
intelligence
21. Examples of Authentic Assessment over Traditional Assessment
1. Which of the following water is
acidic?
a. Fresh water
b. Marine water
c. Brackish water
d. None of the above
Traditional
Assessment
Authentic Assessment
1. Place separately the fresh water,
marine water, and brackish water
in a basin. Get a pH paper or pH
meter and soak it in a basin of
water. Change the pH paper for
every basin of water. Then record.
Ask: What are the pH levels of
fresh water, marine water, and
brackish water? Which is most
acidic? Why?
22. Examples of Authentic Assessment over Traditional Assessment
2. How many millilitres (ml) are there
in one liter?
a. 1, 150 ml
b. 1,100 ml
c. 1,050 ml
d.d. 1,000ml
Traditional
Assessment
Authentic Assessment
2. Get a 100-ml graduates
cylinder and a 1 liter empty
soft drink bottle. Let the
student fill the graduated
cylinder with water and
decant it to the empty bottle
until it is filled.
Ask: How many times did
you fill the graduated
cylinder?
23. Examples of Authentic Assessment over Traditional Assessment
3. How many grams (g) are there in 1
kilogram (kg)?
a. 1, 000 g
b. 1,050 g
c. 1,100 g
d. 1,150 g
Traditional
Assessment
Authentic Assessment
3. Get a table balance with
sets of weights. Place 1 kg of
mangoes on the table
balance and 10 sets of
weights of 100 g each. You
count the sets of weights you
put on the table balance and
multiply (100 x 10)
Ask: How many grams are
there in 1 kilogram?
