1. FS 2: Learning Episode 17
USING TRADITIONAL AND AUTHENTIC TYPES OF ASSESSMENT FOR FORMATIVE AND
SUMMATIVE PURPOSES
Objectives:
Introduction
The essence of outcome-based teaching-learning (OBTL) is the alignment of learning content,
teaching and learning activities, and assessment task/s with intended learning outcomes. OBTL
includes assessing students’ learning to determine if the learning outcomes set at the beginning
of the lesson, chapter or unit have been attained. Depending on the learning outcome to assess,
the assessment task that teacher formulates can be a traditional assessment task or an authentic
assessment task.
There are many ways of classifying assessment but one basis of classifying is the nature of the
assessment task required of learner, whether the assessment task is done through paper-and-
pencil test (traditional assessment) or through non-paper-and-pencil tests (authentic
assessment).
Learning
Outcomes
Content
/Subject
Matter
Teaching-
Learning
activities
Assessment
Tasks
Traditional
Assessment/
Pencil-and-
Pencil test
Types of
Assessment
Task
Authentic
Assessment/
Non-pencil-
and-pencil test
2. Paper-and-pencil test/traditional assessment makes use of two types of test according to mode
of answering: the supply types and the selected-response type.
Product
Assessment
Paper-and-
Pencil test/
Traditional
Assessment
Process
assessment
Supply
type
Completion
Essay
Short
Answer
type
Problem
solving
3. Authentic assessment or non-paper-and pencil test is done by requiring learners to come up
with a product or demonstrate a process as proofs of authentic learning.
