FIELD STUDY 5: Learning Assessment Strategies

FIELD STUDY 5: Learning Assessment Strategies

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Name of FS Student:         Judyan P. Macalling Course:                             Bachelor of Secondary Education Resource Teacher:            Mr. Melchor Abu Cooperating School:          Isabela National High School

My Target             At the end of this activity, you will be informed on the principles of authentic assessment and its usefulness in the classroom.

My Task             Authentic assessment is an alternative way of assessing students’ learning to be able to use it, you must have a deep understanding of it. To help you reach your goal, do the following task: 1.       Visit a classroom and interview the teacher on his/her experiences in using authentic assessment. 2.       Describe how the teacher uses the authentic assessment. 3.       Write a reflective journal on the activity.

My Tools               For this learning activity, please document the information gathered from the interview with the teacher on authentic assessment. Write your documentation using the activity form provided for you.

MY INTERVIEW NOTES How does authentic assessment differ from traditional assessment?           Authentic assessment evaluate students abilities in a real world setting, students apply their skills and abilities to authentic or in a performance based or on projects, it allows learners to integrate what they have learned, individually or by a group, while in traditional assessment, or a pen and paper test, most of the time, students are engaged in rote learning or memorization the low level learning skill which is exercised when taking a passive test. How does authentic assessment helps in the improvement of students performance in the classroom?           Authentic assessment helps students not only for them to use what they have, which are their ability and skills to do a task in a real world context, it also helps students to discover their hidden skills which they have not thought they can do, authentic assessment also help to assess fairly mainly because in today’s most recent curriculum, the k-12, students are known as diverse learners which have different techniques in learning, multiple intelligences and different behaviours as well, so in assessing learning and to help learners improve their potentials, authentic assessing really helps teachers.        What are the authentic assessment tools do you use?         As a science teacher, there are varied assessment tools that I use to assess authentically, like in laboratory exercises, I ask my students to perform an activity by group, and I also use oral recitation to assess if they are aware of the things around them, like making jingles regarding our topic, this are only some of the assessment tolls that I use to assess authentically, and as I learn how learners respond to how I assess them, I gather more ideas on what to do to improve instruction each and every day.

ANALYSIS 1.      What is Authentic Assessment?               Authentic assessment is a way of assessing students with their ability and skill in learning by doing, and learning by making, it evaluates the total learning ability and strength of diverse learners, it requires learners to use their knowledge and skill to generate meaningful results in whatever task they are asked to do, this method helps to inject the ability of students to learn in activities that they are assigned to do so. 2.      How was authentic assessment used? Was it used to measure learning through the product?     Authentic assessment is used to measure through the product and a process as well, though it doesn’t encourage rote learning or memorizing but encourages learners to apply their knowledge by their skills and ability to do and create a thing in their own style, in their own way, the ability to work individually or by a group whether in a written or oral.  REFLECTION   What are your insights and feelings about the use of authentic assessment?     Authentic assessment helps a lot in assessing students learning throughout activities related to a specific subject matter, it is advisable to be used for it is a technique that brings out the best in learners, for every child is unique and have multiple intelligences, authentic assessment also requires students to be close to what their field of specialization through bringing them close to real life situation, but in assessing this way, raters or the teachers should have rubrics in rating so bias will be avoided, cause unlike a passive test, assessing authentically is nearer to have subjectivity. Describe how the teacher used the authentic assessment? The authentic assessment have been used by administering activities, individually and by group, and oral recitation that allows learners to relate the lesson in real life, and ask students to bring materials for laboratory experiments like what they have used while discussing properties of light and it’s importance, even though the teacher have less materials to demonstrate the lesson for him to be able to relate it   well in real world setting, he makes sure to find ways to make the students see what they are discussing by the use of models and pictures and a simple sketch on the board, as the saying goes, if you can’t bring the child to the mountain, bring the mountain to the child, and as a product, the teacher requires the students to come up with a project with regards to a specific lesson of the grading period for him to know the overall learning of the student. How did you feel about the teacher’s experience in the use of authentic assessment?     I admire how the teacher relates every lesson in action by the letting the learners learn by doing it, and as a facilitator, he is there to facilitate learning of each learners even if they are somewhat hard to handle, in how the teacher use authentic assessment, I myself appreciated every lesson he discuss after the students learned them by doing and making this and that on their own, and when you go deep the process and it’s product, I come to realize the importance of science and the use of it in our lives, not only by listening to the teacher alone, but in being able to demonstrate the concepts by yourself. What could be the gains of the students and teachers in using authentic assessment? As a teacher, authentic assessment really helps in evaluating your students overall performance because in this method of assessing, it allows teachers to assess not only the knowledge of the learning about something but the learner’s behaviour, how they learn best, and what to inject for instruction to be better, and as for the learners, learning by doing something makes learning more fun and exciting, it let the students explore and learn and discover their strengths. Which part of the teacher’s use of authentic assessment do you feel like improving or revising? I don’t see anything to be revised because in the first place, the teacher teaches his students to revise the way they learn. The teacher incorporates both traditional and authentic assessment tools to students. The student’s improvement in speaking in front of the class and how they collaborate with each other when having activities, and even their creativity in making a project improves, you can see it in their outputs that they pass, it gets better gradually. Students learn how to be independent in doing a thing, and it enhances their innate abilities.