LEARNING EPISODE 17

USING TRADITIONAL AND AUTHENTIC TYPES OR ASSESSMENT FOR FORMATIVE

PARTICIPATE AND ASSIST

(Note to Students Teacher: You participate and assist your FS Resource Teacher in giving
traditional and authentic forms of assessment for formative or summative purposes, please
take note of what you are expected to give more attention to asked in NOTICE, the next
step.)

1. Confer with your Cooperating Teacher about the lessons for the week or better still study
your Cooperating Teacher’s lesson plans for the week. This may also be done face-to-
face or online.
2. Ask your Cooperating Teacher what you can do to assist him/her in the assessment phase
of the lesson, e.g contribute /formulate assessment tasks, supervise students as they do
assessment tasks.
NOTICE
1. Take notice;
 The alignment of the different assessment task/s both paper-and-pencil
(traditional) and non-paper-and pencil test (authentic) used to assess the learning
outcomes.
 The quality of both traditional and authentic assessment tasks used (if constructed
in accordance with principles of test construction/assessment task development.
 The students’ comments/reaction/response/behavior while doing both traditional
and authentic assessment tasks
 The CT’s comments/reaction /response/behavior while giving both traditional and
authentic assessment tasks
 The assessment tasks used for formative purposes (to ensure lesson understanding
and mastery) and for summative (grading) purposes
 Your own feeling and thoughts as you assisted your CT:
-formulate the assessment the assessment tasks.
ANALYZE
1. Are the assessment tasks aligned with the learning outcomes?
2. Did teacher make use of both traditional and authentic assessment tasks?
3. Are the traditional and authentic assessment tasks (written tests) formulated in
accordance with principles of test construction?
4. Were the assessment tasks for formative purposes also used for summative purposes?
Why or why not?
5. Where were assessment results students better in the results of traditional or authentic
assessment?
6. Which assessment activity/activities did the students like more? Like least? why?
REFLECT
How can I make the assessment process more meaningful to and more acceptable to students?
WRITE ACTION RESEARCH PROMPTS
OBSERVE
1. One thing/ some things that went well is/are in the development/use/ administration of
assessment tasks are…
2. One thing / some things is/are that did not go very well in the development/use/
administration of assessment tasks are…
REFLECT
This part of the assessment process went well because…
This part of the assessment process process did not go well because…
ACT
To ensure that the assessment process serves its purpose, to help students learn, I will read
researchers on… or view video on…
PLAN
To help improve assessment practice, I would like to conduct action research on…….
CHECK FOR MASTERY
Direction: Select the letter of the correct answer.
1. Teacher C made her students write a paragraph about their favorite food to check their
ability to pronounce words correctly, her intended learning outcome. Is the assessment
task aligned with assessment task?
a. Yes
b. No
 c. Somewhat
d. Almost

2. Here is an intended learning outcome: ‘To illustrate the principle of law and demand with
a concrete example.” Which assessment task is aligned with the learning outcome?
a. Give a concrete example to illustrate the principle of law and demand.
b. Illustrate with a diagram the law of supply and demand.
c. Chat is the law of supply and demand? Explain.
d. Is the law of supply are true at all times? Support your answer.
3. Here is completion test:_________________ is an example of an invertebrate. Is the
completion test in accordance with the principle of test construction?
a. Yes
b. Somewhat
c. No
d. Yes, it is specific
4. For the course on practice teaching/teaching internship, the college supervisor of student
teacher required each intern to compile his/her lesson plans with comments from their
Cooperating Teachers and to write their reflections and lessons learned. Which type of
assessment are the interns required?
a. Process
b. Product
c. Project
d. Portfolio
5. Teacher rated students’ project against 5 criteria which explained to her students before
they worked on their projects. Which type of rubric did Teacher use to assess her
students’s work?
a. Holistic rubric
b. Analytic rubric
c. Scoring rubric
d. Descriptive rubric
WORK ON MY ARTIFACTS
Compile samples of traditional and authentic assessment tasks used in the classes you
observed. Include your annotations/ improvements on the assessment tasks.