The document discusses authentic-based assessment and authentic tasks. It defines authentic tasks as those that are realistic, require judgment and innovation to solve unstructured problems, and ask students to work within a subject area rather than restate knowledge. Authentic tasks also replicate real-world contexts and assessments, require students to efficiently use integrated knowledge and skills, and allow opportunities for practice, feedback, and refinement. Authentic tasks demand construction of knowledge through disciplined inquiry and result in work that has value beyond school.