EPISODE 3 "LOG ME"

EPISODE 3

“LOG ME”

ARLENE A. MARIANO	FREDERICO NACINO
BSE-Student	Cooperating Teacher

ISABELA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Cooperating 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 QUESTION: Are you using authentic assessment in the class? Why? ANSWER: Yes, because this kind of assessment is really good for t he students to widen their knowledge and their skills that correlates to real life situations. It also builds their capacity to understand certain situation as they reflect upon it.  QUESTION: Is using this kind of assessment important? ANSWER: Using this authentic assessment is very essential because I can use alternative ways to arouse my student’s interests and I can assess their performance and abilities. QUESTION: Is using this assessment advantageous to all teachers like you? ANSWER: Yes, it is advantageous because there is a good collaboration among my students and they feel excitement and fun whenever we are conducting relevant activities in the classroom. QUESTION: Can this be applied to all subject areas? ANSWER: Yes, this is applicable and very useful to a variety of subjects using different strategies in assessing students’ performance.

Analysis

1.      What is Authentic Assessment?

AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT is the use of assessment methods that simulate true-to –life situations. This could be objective tests that reflect real life situations or alternative methods that are parallel to what we experience in real life. In order to evaluate exactly what an individual has learned, it is necessary to develop an assessment method that examines his/her collective abilities. Such an assessment procedure is called authentic assessment. In general, this gives students situations that occur in the real world which require them to apply their relevant skills and knowledge.

AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT is designed to be criterion-referenced rather than norm-referenced. Such evaluation identifies strengths and weaknesses, but does not compare or rank students.

2.       How was authentic assessment used? Was it used to measure learning through the product?

v  SELF-ASSESSMENT---- The teacher poses question to determine if the students understood the topic being presented and to extend or generate ideas from them.

COMMENT: the teacher should recognize the students after they have recited.

v  PORTFOLIO------ The teacher assesses students when it is inappropriate or difficult to test students’ understanding or knowledge with pen-and-paper test.

COMMENT: the teacher should present the topic clearly and specifically.

v  PERFORMANCE-BASED----- Used by the teacher before and after instruction. It is commonly used procedure for gathering formal evidence about student learning, specifically in memory, recall and comprehension.

COMMENT: the teacher should monitor the students during the exam to avoid unnecessary movements.

                        Therefore, authentic assessment is not only used to measure product because authentic assessment measures both process and product. Process and product working together or dependent to each other. Without the process we cannot do the best product and without the product we can’t do process.

Reflection What are your insights and feelings about the use of authentic assessment? r  My insight and feelings about these new trends in the classroom assessment is more challenging than the traditional assessment. Using this new classroom assessment, teachers could arouse the interest of students and they could offer more fun in the classroom through the use of alternative or authentic assessment which brings excitement for the students. Through this new trend in the classroom setting, the teacher can now attain more active class participation and teacher-student collaboration will also be obtained. Describe how the teacher used the authentic assessment? v  ORAL RECITATION-----The teacher gathers information from students’ own reflection about the topic that leads them to greater awareness and understanding of what they have learned. COMMENT: the teacher should give specific ideas for students to reflect on it expressively. v  CLASSROOM PRESENTATION----The teacher provides regular feedback to students regarding their performance, accomplishments, capabilities, strengths, weaknesses and progress over specified time. COMMENT: the teacher should provide regular feedback. v  PEN-and-PAPER-----The teacher observes a student or group of students performing a specific task. Students demonstrate a skill or proficiencies by asking them to create, produce and perform. COMMENT: should assign level of proficiency based on the performance of students. How did you feel about the teacher’s experience in the use of authentic assessment? r  I feel more confident because there are different techniques and strategies in assessing students’ performance this kind of assessment is very useful, reliable and appropriate in conducting relevant activities in the classroom. Authentic assessment is best to use because it gives students great challenges which could help them do their best and improve their achievements. What could be the gains of the students and teachers in using authentic assessment? r  One of the benefits of using this kind of assessment is gaining the smooth-interpersonal relationship among the students and the teacher himself/herself. They strengthen and establish good rapport from each other. There is good and smooth flow of conversation using this assessment strategy. There is also active participation and collaboration when it comes to classroom management.

Which part of the teacher’s use of authentic assessment do you feel like improving or revising?

r  I feel like improving or revising in the part of the evaluation process which the teacher assesses students’ learning performance using alternative strategies and alternative activities relevant to the subject. Students in response show and do their best in their activities conducted by the teacher.