What are your insights and feelings about the use of authentic assessment?

There are lots of assessment tools we are using in order to measure students ability and attain their needs. The used of authentic assessment is to engage students in discourse social learning to involve in real-world problems. As teachers, we wanted our class to be alive and most of all engage all students in doing the hands on and minds on activities. This can only happen when a teacher knows how to facilitate her class in such a way that she uses several techniques in the form of authentic assessment when assigning a task. Authentic assessment is one of the best useful tools in assessing the child performance. It is one way of evaluating your students according to their knowledge, skills and abilities to do work. Using authentic assessment is very much useful in the classroom because students perform, construct on their own to produce or do something. Likewise, it also allows students to perform tasks and find solutions when questions are posted. In other words, they are problem-solvers and at the same time problem-posers too. It gives them time to explain, justify and defend based on their real life experiences. Describe how the teacher used the authentic assessment. The teacher used authentic assessment to measure and easily identifies her students using different kinds of test, in order to determine if her objectives for that week are attainable or not. If there are learners who did not meet the desired objectives, they undergo remediation of the test. So, as we noticed, the teacher uses traditional kind of test. But we can also use different strategies and methodologies for the development and progress of the learners. How did you feel about the teacher's use of authentic assessment? I feel blessed and contented on how the teacher used authentic assessment because I learned a lot of things from her. As an interviewer I learned that it should be appropriate to move onto to the next concept of your teaching strategies in order to identify and easily determine on how the child's development and progress be measured. What could be the gains of the students and teachers in using the authentic assessment? With the use of authentic assessment, students will become effective performers with acquired knowledge, while teachers will be able to measure the learners capacity to do work and enhance her strategies to be an effective teacher.

What part of the teachers practice of the authentic assessment do you feel like improving or revising? Learning is a continuous process, so we must adopt changes in order to cope with advancement of assessing students performance. So for me, all of those practices are improving, since it is properly planned and based on the students criteria. But also she must apply technology in education as it is necessary to practice it in school.