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Field
Study
EPISODE 3
LOG ME
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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.
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MY
INTERVIEW NOTES
Our resource teacher have always been
giving us the information that could help us find out the best teaching
strategies including the type of assessment, the proper methodologies as well
as the good behaviour towards the teacher from the student and student back
to the teacher.
We are
lucky to observe one of the best teachers in the INHS that manage his class
very well.
Mr. Limon our resource teacher said to us that in order
for us to assess very well the student we should have to give clear
directions and also what is our target for the student so that the students
are aware of what to do and what to include. Next step is that we should
present the criteria for judging in the student so that they know already how
to calculate for their grades. '' There are lot of student who are
complaining and comparing their grades especially if it is higher section''
he added. He also said that we should be very careful on giving grades to
students.
Teacher
Limon use authentic assessment wherein he allows his student to do the wood
painting and wood joining. After discussing the entire topic he lets his
student to bring their own material like Wood, nails, natural varnish,
plywood, paint brush and wood glue. For the wood joining, he lets the
students to utilize their time in making wood joints. He observes his
students who are doing well and who are not interested. He checked for the
work of each student who can follow the steps. He looks for the student who
actually understood the topic He allows his student to open their notes and
look for the procedures. After they finish their work, he check individually
the student on how they arrive in that kind of project, he knows that some of
the student did not do alone their project because base in his observation he
saw some girls and boys who can’t follow the procedure so to make sure about
his judgement he have to ask that particular student on the procedures and
their answers and reasons are needed to assess them well.
He said to
us that in the wood working we have to observe and check the students during
their performance and do not rely alone on the product because some of the
students are cheating.
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Analysis
1.
What
is Authentic Assessment?
Authentic assessment is a type of assessment where in we
observe and look for the students performance on how they will use their
knowledge with the given task. And with their product we also have to score
them base from it, but before scoring them we have to ask them on how they do
for us to know if they really do it alone. Base from this we can have an idea
about the students progress and skills.
Of course the level of the task that you should give to your students
must be complex and not simple, because that will tell you on how the students
are working about their learning and with that task they will arrive into
another learning. Note that the degree
of authenticity of your product and performance is greatly affect your
students. Make sure that you give them the proper task that is tied with your
learning target. It must also include a rubric to give a grade for each student
because this will give an equal and fair scoring. This must be presented before
the task starts.
2.
How
was authentic assessment used? Was it used to measure learning through the
product?
It is use through performing and having a tangible output.
Yes, because the task that was given to them was specially design to provide a
feedback to know how much they get from the teacher. And with that product he
will later ask some questions about the project on how they arrive with output,
base from the teachers observation he will now have a good judging.
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Reflection
What
are your insights and feelings about the use of authentic assessment?
Base from my
resource teacher and his strategy in
teaching and assessing I can say that it is good to include real world
setting and do the learner centred approach wherein we let our students to
work on their own, as the adage says 'I
see and I forget, I hear and I remember, I do and I understand.' It is
practically applicable in education that learning by doing could greatly
affect the students knowledge, performance and behaviour. We should look for
the complex activities for our students that would allow them to use their
knowledge and with that activity another learning will arrive.
We have to be very observable and
look for our students while performing because with that observation we see
the students who cannot follow and who do cheating. We can use this
observation in checking their outputs later. So for us to have a good basis
we must record or write the students behaviour while they are performing.
Describe how the teacher used
the authentic assessment?
The teacher
lets the student to bring their own material. He let his student to work
individually for him to have an accurate measurement of the learning of the
students. He provides a task that is equal to all regardless of the sex of
the students meaning there is no boy or girl in terms of doing the task. He
also includes the time interval in doing the task. Because some of the
students are lazy and some were just doing their outputs just to have a
grade.
How
did you feel about the teacher’s experience in the use of authentic
assessment?
The use of authentic assessment
was great. We should not rely alone on their quizzes because of the students
are cheating with their seat mates especially if the type of sitting
arrangement the boys are separated with the girls. We must have to be very careful on giving a
task without observing the. We also have to be serious in giving a task
because base from my observation some students will laugh at you and will not
do their task if you are playing with them all the time. The authenticity of the task must be
reliable, we should give the same task to all the students regardless of the
sex and section. My resource teacher
also told me to be careful in giving a direction. Because some students are
slow. We also need to show the rubrics
in public before giving them a score.
What could be the gains of the
students and teachers in using authentic assessment?
For the
student; aside from learning they may gain skill and good workmanship. They
May develop their potentials in
terms of art because the task that was given to them by our resource teacher
was wood painting. They may also gain good learning habit or good recreation.
Because the teacher provide them a task that will later turn into a good and
useful output.
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Which part of the
teacher’s use of authentic assessment do you feel like improving or revising?
For me the part of improving in
the authentic assessment of the teacher is the degree of the procedure. He
improves and had made a better task because he found out that his students
are interest though the task is hard for them to follow. He make sure that
the learning task will not be similar to the new task.
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