AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT

AND ASSESSMENT OF
PROCESS AND PRODUCT
Prepared by: Krisha Bulawan
 AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT

It evaluates the students’ collective skills and abilities to

perform and demonstrate the tasks in real-world situation for
them to determine how much they have learned with
meaningful application. It involves performance tests and
portfolio assessment. Performance test is a measure which
often makes use of manipulative materials to develop
students’ skills and abilities.
◦In other words, in authentic assessment,
the student is exposed to the real world
situation to perform his tasks with the
best of his skills and abilities.
 Criterion-referenced measure

is used to assess the performance of

the student in authentic assessment.
It is more on psychomotor domain.
◦ Authentic assessment requires the students to perform meaningful tasks in real-
world situation.
◦ It promotes the development of HOTS because the evaluators including the self
and peer have to think wisely and precisely the rating most appropriate to the
students’ performance to excellent down to poor.
◦ It tenders direct evidence of application and construction of knowledge and skills
acquired.
◦ It includes portfolio collection of entries.
◦ It demonstrates application of a particular knowledge and skills.
◦ It fosters role-playing of the lessons learned by students which serves as
show window to them.
◦ It identifies performance of students’ acquired skills and expertise.
◦ It assess directly holistic projects by multiple human judgment like self, peer,
subject teacher, and teacher-adviser.
◦ It trains the students to evaluate their own work as well as their peers.
◦ It is designed on criterion-referenced measure rather than norm-referenced
measure. The strengths and weaknesses of the students have been identified
rather than compare students’ performance with other students.
1. Authentic assessment is personalized, natural and flexible relevant
to the students; level of difficulty, skills and abilities. Traditional
assessment is impersonal and absolute owing to uniformity of
test without regard to the skills and abilities of the students.
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 test even if
these are inappropriate to them.
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.
4. Authentic assessment identifies the strengths and weakness of the
students’ skills and abilities. Traditional assessment compares the
performance of students to others.
5. Authentic assessment promotes good rapport or bonding
between the teacher and student due to their mutual
understanding. Traditional assessment has poor relationship
between teacher and students caused by impersonalized and
absolute tests since the purpose is to compare the test results
of students to others.
6. Authentic assessment develops the students’ responses
because they are made to perform the learning task in a real-
world situation. Traditional assessment requires the students to
choose the options prepared by the teacher.
7. Authentic assessment gives the students freedom to choose
evidence of a performance. In traditional assessment, the teacher
prepares the tests and students have to respond on what is asked on
the test.
8. Authentic assessment makes use of performance test in a real world
situation and portfolio assessment. Traditional assessment involves
paper-and-pencil test in which the students are required to choose the
correct answer among the options prepared by the teacher.
Samples of traditional assessment and
authentic assessment
Traditional assessment Authentic assessment

1. Which of the following water is most acidic? 1. Place separately the fresh water, marine water,
a. Fresh water brackish water in a basin. Get a pH paper or
pH meter and soak it in a basin of water.
b. Marine water Change the pH paper for every basin of water.
c. Brackish water Then record.

◦ Ask: what is the pH of fresh water? Marine

water? Brackish water? Which is most acidic?
Why?
Samples of traditional assessment and
authentic assessment
Traditional assessment Authentic assessment

2. How many millilitres {ml} are there in one liter? 2. Get a 100-ml graduated cylinder and 1 liter
a. 1,150 ml empty soft drink bottle. Let the student fill the
graduated cylinder with water and decant it to the
b. 1,100 ml empty bottle until it is filled.
c. 1,000 ml
◦ Ask: how many times did you fill the graduated
cylinder?
Samples of traditional assessment and
authentic assessment
Traditional assessment Authentic assessment

3. How many grams {g} are there in 1 kilogram 3. Get a table balance with sets of weights. Place
{kg}? 1kg. of mangoes on the table balance and 10sets of
a. 1,000 g weights of 100g each. You count the sets of
weights you put on the table balance and multiply.
b. 1,050 g (100x10).
c. 1,100 g ◦ Ask: How many grams are there in 1 kilogram?
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.
Performance Assessment of Process and
Product

Assessment of process involves series of steps

to follow in performing or doing the task. A
product is the output in performing a task
which is concrete or real and can be assessed.
◦Performance assessment of process and product refers to the on-the-
spot evaluation of performance behaviour of the student to
determine his interest and willingness to perform the task. The
quality of the products depends on the performance of the student
to perform the task.

◦In performance assessment of process and product, the values of the

students such as creativity, industry, enthusiasm, punctuality (punctual
to start and finish the project), originality, and productivity must be
considered.
Identify the Performance Process and Product

Choose the Center of Assessment

Choose the appropriate degree of Realism

Choose the Performance Situation

Choose the Appropriate Statistical Tool

1. Identify the Performance Process and Product
◦ In identifying performance process and product, select a project to create a product good for
the health of the people that responds to the socioeconomic development of the students,
and community in particular and to the country in general.
2. Choose the Center of Assessment
◦ The 2nd step on performance assessment process and product is to choose the center of
assessment.
3. Choose the appropriate degree of Realism
◦ Choosing the appropriate degree of realism is the 3rd step of performance assessment
process and product.
4. Choose the performance Situation- the 4th step of
performance assessment process and product is to choose the
performance situation. In 2003, Gronlund classified performance
situation into:
a. Paper-and-pencil-test
b. Identification test
c. Structured performance test
d. Simulated performance
e. Work sample
a. Paper-and-pencil test- the test is prepared by the teacher, for
instance, multiple choice. The students choose the correct answer
among the options prepared by the teacher.
b.Identification test- in this test the students analyse and identify the
correct answer of the statements or parts of a drawing.
c. Structured performance test- this test makes use of structures
responses which are commonly used in classroom testing for natural
science subject. For instance, directly, indirectly, and in no way, this
is to test the students on how good they are in judging statements
which are closely related to each other.
d. Simulated performance- this attempts to imitate the
performance of a task in real situation. For instance role
playing.
e. Choose the Appropriate Statistical Tool- the 5th step of
performance assessment of process and product is to choose
the appropriate statistical tool to arrive at valid results and
interpretation.
5. Choose the Appropriate Statistical Tool- the 5th step of performance
assessment of process and product is to choose the appropriate statistical tool to
arrive at valid results and interpretation.
For onstance, the investigatory project on “Utilization of Milkfish Bones into
Polvoron”. The specific research problems are as follows:
1. What is general acceptability of the quality attributes of polvoron with and
without milkfish bones?
2. Is there a significant difference on the general acceptability of thr quality
attributed of polvoron with and without milkfish bones?
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