Authentic assessment evaluates students' skills and abilities through performance tests and portfolios that demonstrate tasks in real-world situations. It promotes higher-order thinking and directly shows what students have learned through application and construction of knowledge. Traditional assessment involves impersonal, standardized testing that compares students and focuses on choosing correct answers, rather than developing responses or allowing freedom in showing abilities. Authentic assessment identifies strengths and weaknesses through student and peer evaluation, while traditional assessment relies solely on the teacher's subjective evaluation.

1. Authentic Assessment
and
Assessment of Process and Product
Lovebella C. Jao
Discussant

2. Authentic assessment
evaluates the students’
collective skills and abilities to
perform and demonstrate the
tasks in real-world situation.
It involves performance tests
and portfolio assessment.
Criterion-referenced
measure is used to assess the
performance of the student in

3. Characteristics of
Authentic Assessment

4. 1. Authentic assessment requires the
students to perform meaningful tasks in
real world situation.
2. It promotes the development of higher
order thinking skills.
3. It tenders direct evidence of application
and construction of knowledge and skills
acquired.

5. 4. It includes portfolio collection of
entries.
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.

6. 7. It identifies performance of
students’ acquired skills and
expertise.
8. It assesses directly holistic projects
by multiple human judgment like
self, peer, subject teacher, and
teacher-adviser.

7. 9. It trains the students to evaluate
their own work as well as to their
parents.
10. It is designed on criterion-
referenced measure rather than
norm-referenced measure.

8. Distinctions Between
Authentic Assessment
and
Traditional Assessment

9. 1. Authentic assessment is personalized,
natural and flexible relevant to the
students’ level of difficulty, skills,
abilities. Traditional assessment is
impersonal and absolute owing to
uniformity of test without regard to
the skills and abilities of the students.

10. 2. Authentic assessment is fair
because skills and abilities are
appropriate to the learners.
Traditional assessment is unfair since
learners are forced to accept the
contexts of the tests even if these are
inappropriate to them.

11. 3. Authentic assessment gives the
student (self) and peer (classmate) the
chance to evaluate their own work
and work of their classmates,
respectively. In traditional assessment,
only the subject teacher evaluates the
performance of the students and there
is tendency of subjectivity.

12. 4. Authentic assessment identifies
the strengths and weaknesses of
the students’ skills and abilities.
Traditional assessment compares
the performance of students to
others.

13. 5. Authentic assessment promotes
good rapport or bonding between
the teacher and student due to
their mutual understanding.
Traditional assessment has poor
relationship between the teacher
and students.

14. 6. Authentic assessment develops the
students’ responses while traditional
assessment requires the students to
choose the options prepared by the
teacher.

15. 7. Authentic assessment gives the
students freedom to choose
evidence of good performance. In
traditional assessment, the teacher
prepares the test and students have
to respond on what is asked on the
test.

16. 8. Authentic assessment makes use of
performance test in real-world situation
and portfolio assessment. Traditional
assessment involves paper-and-pencil tests
in which the students are required to
choose the correct answer among the
options prepared by the teacher.

17. Samples of Traditional
Assessment and Authentic
Assessment

18. Traditional Assessment Authentic Assessment
1. Which of the following
water is most acids?
a. fresh water
b. marine water
c. brackish water
1. Place separately the fresh
water, marine water,
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 is the pH of fresh
water? Marine water?
Brackish water? Which is
most acidic? Why?

19. Traditional Assessment Authentic Assessment
2. How many milliliters (ml)
are there in one liter?
a. 1,150 ml
b. 1,100 ml
c. 1,000 ml
2. Get a 100-ml graduated
cylinder and 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.

20. Traditional Assessment Authentic Assessment
3. How many grams (g) are
there in 1 kilogram (kg)?
a. 1,000 g
b. 1,050 g
c. 1,100 g
3. Get a table 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 set weights you
put on the table balance and
multiply (100x10).
Ask: How many grams are
there in 1 kilogram?

21. Traditional Assessment Authentic Assessment
4. How many cups are there
in 1 gallon?
a. 14 cups
b. 15 cups
c. 16 cups
4. Get an empty 1 gallon ice
cream container and a
measuring cup. Let the
student fill the cup with water
and pour it to the empty
container until it is filled up.
Ask: How many cups of
water did you pour into a
gallon container of ice
cream? How many cups are
there in 1 gallon?

22. Traditional Assessment Authentic Assessment
5. How many teaspoons
(tsp) are there in 1
tablespoon (tbsp)?
a. 2 tsp
b. 3 tsp
c. 4 tsp
5. Get a set of measuring
spoons. Let the student fill
the teaspoon with water and
pour it to the tablespoon until
filled.
Ask: How many times did
you fill the tablespoon? How
many teaspoons are there in
1 tablespoon?

23. In authentic assessment, the knowledge
acquired through “learning by doing” can
hardly be erased in the mind of the learners
due to logical understanding of the process
and product. Whereas, traditional assessment
can be easily forgotten by learners as a
consequence of rote memorization and no
actual performance of the tasks.

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