Traditional assessments typically involve multiple choice, true/false, or matching questions and evaluate students through ranked scores and grades. They are reliable and easy to administer but encourage low-level thinking. Non-traditional assessments like performance and portfolio evaluations directly observe students' applied skills and require higher-order thinking. They integrate written and applied measures to demonstrate proficiency in real-world tasks and emphasize cooperation over competition. While traditional tests enhance learning through understanding, non-traditional assessments enhance learning by requiring students to communicate interconnections among concepts and procedures.

1. Preparedby:
Juniel Tumampos
Traditional and Non– Traditional
Assessments
Educ4 Assessment of Learning1

2. What is TraditionalAssessment?
• A type of assessment in which the
students choose their answer from a
given list of choices. Examples of this
type of assessment are multiple –
choice test, standard true/false test,
matching type test, and fill- in – the
blank test.

3. Example of Traditional Assessment
(Quiz)

4. Strengths of TraditionalAssessment
• Reliability
• Validity
• Easy to administer
• Uses a checking key
• Uses low-level thinking

5. Weaknessesof TraditionalAssessment
• Individualist
• Competition

6. Purpose ofTraditionalAssessment
• Evaluate students
• Rank students
• Assign final grade

7. TraditionalAssessment Tools
• True/false tests
• Multiple choice tests
• Essays and short answer test

8. Non – Traditional Assessments
• Also known as Alternative assessment,
is any type of assessment in which
students create response to a question
or task.
• It includes performance assessment
and portfolio assessment

9. PerformanceAssessment
• Is the direct, systematic observation of
an actual student performance and the
rating of that performance according to
previous performance criteria.
• It requires Higher Order Thinking Skills
(HOTS)

11. Portfolio Assessment
• Portfolio assessment is a purposeful
collection of student work designed to
showcase a student’s progress toward,
and achievement of, course – specific
learning objectives. This provide
evidence of what student can actually
do.

12. Example of Portfoilo

13. Traditional Assessment Non – Traditional Assessment
Generally relies on forced – choice
written measures
Promotes integration of various written
and performance measures
Relies on proxy measures of
student learning to represent target
skills
Relies on direct measures of target
skills
Encourages memorization of correct
answers
Encourages divergent thinking in
generation possible answers
Goal is to measure acquisition of
knowledge
Goal is to enhance development of
meaningful skills
Curriculum directs assessment Assessment directs curriculum
Emphasis on developing a body of
knowledge
Emphasis on ensuring proficiency at
real – world tasks
Promotes “what” knowledge Promotes “how” knowledge
Emphasizes competition Emphasizes cooperation
Targets simplistic skills or tasks in a
concrete, singular fashion
Prepares students for ambiguities and
exceptions that are found in realistic
problem settings
Priority on summative outcomes or Priority on the learning sequence or

14. Conclusion
The traditional assessment can enhance
learning when the question on the test are
carefully crafted to express the learner’s
understanding and misunderstanding while
the non traditional assessment on the other
hand can enhance learning by requiring the
student to communicate the interconnection
of coherent among concepts and procedures.

15. References:
-tesda.gov.ph
-Y.A. Gabuyo, ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING 1
-R.L. NAVARRO, R.G. SANTOS, Assessment of
learning outcomes(assessment 1)