Martha S. Espinosa
BEED-SPED 3x3
My Reflective Journal
What are your insights and feelings about the use of authentic assessment?
- I agree with what the teacher have said about the authentic assessment. Authentic assessment is an
alternative way of evaluating students’ learning outcome by letting them perform or demonstrate the
knowledge of the concept taught and the skills that shows evidence of learning. In terms of assessing the
learning, I think authentic assessment is more appropriate and perhaps better than traditional way of
assessing learning because it is more in application than in theory though there are limitations of using it.
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Describe how the teacher used the authentic assessment?
- The teacher used authentic assessment to determine the extent to which students’ have learned the
concept both through process and product. When you say authentic assessment through product, it
means that it requires students to produce a product or an outcome that shows their evidence of learning.
For example, like what the teacher said about giving activities such as role play, essay writing, etc. These
are examples of product. While, assessing through process involves interaction between the teacher and
the student and the teacher will evaluate learning based on the performance manifested by the student.
From the interview, she mentioned an activity wherein the students recite and judge the concept based on
the science news presented. I think this kind of activity is an example of authentic assessment through
process. Another example is when the teacher asks the students to recite and tell something about the
lesson. But there are also instances that the teacher find it difficult to use authentic assessment such as
teaching chemistry to college students which is time consuming and the allowable time to teach the
subject is 52 hours.
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How did you feel about the teacher’s use of authentic assessment?
- I feel that the teacher was right in using authentic assessment when she was teaching high school before
and I think she has a point of disapproving the use of authentic assessment in teaching college. Aside from
the fact that it is time consuming and teaching the whole subject takes only 1 semester in college, authentic
assessment is only applicable if there are lesser content to be mastered in a semester. If there is a lesser
content to be covered, then the teacher could linger or make innovations about the lesson and thus
authentic assessment is applicable to use. Regardless of the limitations in using authentic assessment,
for me it is still the best way to assess learning because it evaluates directly on the students.
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What could be the gains of the students and teachers in using the authentic assessment?
- I think the gains that the students would get if the teacher use authentic assessment is that their progress
in learning will be determined easily through the feedback of the teacher. Once the student is aware of his
or her performance, the student will know what to improve to progress more. Thus, they become motivated
to strive harder to progress on their studies. The more motivated they become, the more they will learn.
- And for the teachers, the gains they could get in using authentic assessment is that they could easily
measure student achievement based on the performance manifested by the students. Through authentic
assessment, they could easily evaluate whether their instruction is effective or not. If it is not effective, then
the teacher could just revise her methods in teaching. It also determines the weaknesses and strengths of
her students and gives opportunity to teachers to diagnose those weaknesses. Lastly, in authentic
assessment the teacher could assure that there is no bias in assessing learning. Just like what the teacher
has mentioned in the interview, in traditional way of assessment particularly the multiple choice test the
students could easily cheat on their classmates. But in authentic assessment, students cannot do the cheating
because it requires them to perform the task or demonstrate their knowledge or skills.
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What part of the teacher’s practice of the authentic assessment do you feel like improving or revising?
- Based on the teacher’s experience from the interview, I think the part where authentic assessment is
improving is when the teacher directly assesses the students’ learning through activities and tasks that the
students need to perform or demonstrate and the teacher gives directly a feedback so that a student will
learn and know what to improve though it takes time to see their improvement.
- I think the part of teacher’s practice where authentic assessment needs revising is that when the students
misinterpret or misunderstand the concept they have learned. The teacher needs to make corrections,
explain the concept more and review it again to deepen the understanding of the students regarding the
concept taught.
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