Episode 3: Log Me

EPISODE 3

LOG ME

Name of FS Student:    Mary Joy . Navarro       Course:                         Bachelor of Secondary Education                                                                                 Resource Teacher:       Mr. Federico Nacino       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                  Authentic assessment is important because this engage the process of learning of the students. In authentic assessment we are preparing our students to use their skills for the future use. In authentic assessment we are checking the performance of each students and the work or project that they have done. Working on authentic tasks is useful, engaging activity in itself; it becomes an “Episode of Learning” for the students. Teaching to such tasks guarantees that we are concentrating on worthwhile skills and strategies. Students are learning and practicing how to apply important knowledge and skills for authentic purposes. The student should not simply recall information, they should apply what they know to new tasks. Performance assessment is a term that is commonly used in place of authentic assessment. Performance assessment requires student to demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and strategies by creating a response or a product.

Analysis

•      What is Authentic Assessment?
  

               Authentic assessment refers to assessment that resembles reading and writing in the real world and in school (Hiebert, Valencia & Afflerbach, 1994; Wiggins, 1993). Authentic assessment values the thinking behind work, the process, as much as the finished products (Pearson & Valencia,1987; Wolf, 1989). In authentic assessment teachers not just want the students to know the content of the disciplines when they finished the lesson, they also want the students able to use the acquired knowledge and skills in the real world. In a simple word authentic assessment emphasizes the practical application of the task in real world setting.

Authenticity is providing realistic activities engaging students to learn something and for the betterment of their understanding. Authentic assessment helps in the production of the learning ability of each student. In my own simple word, authentic assessment is a meaningful learning process.

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

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Authentic assessment was used to assess many different kinds of literacy abilities in  context that closely resemble actual situations in which different abilities are used by the  students. In other words, students learn how to apply their skills to authentic tasks and  projects. Authentic assessment focuses on students analytical skills, ability to integrate  what they have learn, creativity, ability to work cooperatively, and written and oral  expression skills. It values the learning process but much in the finished product.  For example, authentic assessment asks students to read real text, to write for authentic  purposes about journals, writing letters, and revising a piece of writing until it works  for the reader. Reflection What are your insights and feelings about the use of authentic assessment? For me the use of authentic assessment is helpful for the students, because I believe in the saying that “experience is the best teacher”. With the help of this assessment strategy the students will be more efficient in doing such thing. Authentic assessment also helps to boost the self-confident of each student to do such activity, it also helps them to know the skills they have and improve it. With the help of authentic assessment the students will be able to understand better the lesson and it helps them also to become a creative thinkers. Describe how the teacher used the authentic assessment? The teacher used authentic assessment by giving students some activities and project that is based on their lesson. The teacher also let the student perform in the class to see if they have learned something. The activities or projects made by the student help them better understand the lesson, and help the teacher know if the student really understand what have been taught to them. With this assessment the student will have opportunity to explore learning, discover how they acquire learning to the most and try out different approaches to solving problems,work independently to determine the relevance of what they are learning in their lives. How did you feel about the teacher’s experience in the use of authentic assessment? . I can say that authentic assessment was quite effective in the learning process of each student. Authentic assessment helps the teacher to make the student better understand the lesson. Authentic assessment contributes a lot in learning, it helps the student be more expressive, and it helps them to know their own capabilities and skills. Authentic assessment also helps the teacher to identify those students who really understand the lesson and not. In simple word authentic assessment is sometimes the basis of the teacher. What could be the gains of the students and teachers in using authentic assessment? In authentic assessment,real life learning from the learners perspective is often playful, recursive and non-linear,engaging, self-directed and meaningful.School learning experiences should prepare learners to be knowledge producers,knowledge users,and socially responsible citizen. And it is assumed that these are enough reason to prove that authenticity is performance-based tasks is of great significance, in learning. Providing realistic context can make problems more engaging for students,and help the teacher evaluatewhether a student who can solve a problem in one context can solve it in another. Hence, it is desirable to increase the authentic of tasks to whatever extent possible.

Which part of the teacher’s use of authentic assessment do you feel like improving or revising? In authentic assessment teachers should not only know the subject matter they are teaching, they also need to understand their students’ individual differences. For me I don’t need to improve or revise how my cooperating teacher used the authentic assessment, because teachers have their own strategies on how to make their students learn, and in the way he teach I can say that his assessment strategy is effective because you can see the improvement in the part of the students. Every teacher has different approach on how to prepare their students for the future, and I will respect their own way of doing it. As a teacher we should provide equal opportunity in our students to explore learning, we should let them discover how they will acquire learning, and we should let them work independently to determine the relevance of what they are learning and improve their hidden skills.

Episode 1: My Assessment List

EPISODE 1: My Assessment List

My Target

            At the end of this activity, you will be competent in identifying and naming different assessment methods used in the classroom.

My Task

·         Observe at least three classes and make a list of the assessment methods used by teachers.

·         In my list, classify assessment methods as to conventional and authentic and alternative.

·         Describe how each assessment method was used, including my personal observations.

·         Confer with my FS teacher for the assessment list.

·         Reflect on my experience.

           

My Tools

            As you visit schools and observe assessment practices in at least three classes, document your observations using the activity forms provided for you in this reference. For your pen-and-paper test items, customize a table of specification, and prepare the test material based on the prescriptions of the school where you do class observation.

CLASS 1 OBSERVATION
Name of the School Observed :Isabela National High School School Address: Claravall St. San Vicente City of Ilagan,Isabela Date Visited: December 01, 2014 Grade/Year Level: Grade 9-Patience Subject Area: Electronics
ASSESSMENT TOOLS	DESCRIPTION (Bulleted description of how the assessment method is used relative to subject matter, levels of learning behaviour, length, etc.)
Oral Question Assessment		After finishing the lesson or the discussion, the teacher introduce oral recitation in the class to check if the students have listen and understand the lesson that have been discussed to them. The teacher pick for the name of the students to be fair with them then ask a question that they need to answer correctly. Every correct answer that they will give will corresponds a point and will be added to their grade. You can see that some students can answer every question with all of their knowledge that make the teacher know that he have tought them right and well.
CLASS 2 OBSERVATION
Name of the School Observed :Isabela National High School School Address: Claravall St. San Vicente City of Ilagan,Isabela Date Visited: December 08, 2014 Grade/Year Level: 4th year Barbery Subject Area: Foods
ASSESSMENT TOOLS	DESCRIPTION (Bulleted description of how the assessment method is used relative to subject matter, levels of learning behaviour, length, etc.)
Performance-based Assessment		This assessment method was used by the teacher to the students in their major which is about foods. the students are ask to cook some foods that is based on their lesson. The teacher checks if the students can follow the steps or procedure in cooking, the teacher also looks for the technique that the students have used to produce a better outcome on their product. The artistry of the students to design their project make the lesson more enjoyable and special.

CLASS 3 OBSERVATION
Name of the School Observed :Isabela National High School School Address: Claravall St. San Vicente City of Ilagan,Isabela Date Visited: December 15, 2014 Grade/Year Level: Grade 9- Lavander Subject Area: Wood Working
ASSESSMENT TOOLS	DESCRIPTION (Bulleted description of how the assessment method is used relative to subject matter, levels of learning behaviour, length, etc.)
Project- based Assessment		After the teacher have teach the lesson, give the procedure to the students and teach them on how to do it properly he ask them to do a project about their lesson with their groups. You can see that the students help one another for the betterment of their project. They show different strategies and techniques to produce a good outcome on the project that they are doing. Some groups have finished their project earlier than the other groups who are still varnishing their work.

ASSESSMENT TOOLS CLASSIFICATION SHEET
Name of the School Observed: Isabela National High School  School Address: Claravall St. San Vicente City of Ilagan, Isabela Date Visited: December 15, 2014 Grade/Year Level: Grade 9- Patience Subject Area: Electronics
ASSESSMENT TOOLS	DESCRIPTION OF HOW THE ASSESSMENT METHOD WAS USED
Performance-base Assessment Oral Question Assessment   Observation Assessment  Project-based Assessment		This assessment method used by the teacher is used to require students to develop their skills, be artistic and produce something that is involve in the real world situation.           This assessment method is used to check and monitor the understanding of the student. The teacher ask the students some questions about the finished topic that have been discussed.       In this assessment the teacher observes the understanding and the progress that is happening to each students. Observation is used also to evaluate the students.        The teacher is applying this assessment so that you will be able to checked the artistry and production of the students in doing their projects.

Analysis

1.       Was there a variety of assessment methods used by the teacher? How relevant was/were the assessment method/s used?

         

  Yes, there were variety of assessment methods use by the teachers. The teacher was making the assessment method very significant to every student. The teachers activity are related to the real world situation so that it is easy for the students to understand the lesson easily. The assessment method was used effectively by the teacher . The teacher used several strategies so that it will help him to used the assessment method efficiently. As a teacher we should always remember that in the learning process of our students we should know the capabilities of our students. 

2.       Do you think the expected students’ learning behaviors indicated in the objectives were properly and appropriately assessed through those assessment methods?

                 There are different ways on how to assess students based on the objectives that have been set . As i observe my cooperating teachers, they are doing their best to achieved the objectives that they have set in their students. With the help of some assessment methods this will help them to discover if they had achieved their objectives. And now i can say that the assessment method that they have used are properly and appropriately align in the objectives that they have set.

                      A good teacher is not only teaching because of the salary that they will receive. A good teacher teach because they have their objectives in their students and they want to touch the lives of every student and make a change that will make their future a better one.

My Reflections:

             As a Bachelor of Secondary Education student we will be a good teacher someday. As a future educator we should have our clear objectives why we are teaching our students. By the use of assessment we can checked if the objectives we have set are achieved. There are different ways on how we can assess our students and this assessment can help us in better teaching process.

                  With the help of assessment we are also able to know if we had teach our students well and how effective teachers we are. In assessing our students its not enough that we only know to put assessment into action. The assessment methods that we will used should be proper and appropriate to the objectives that we have set. As a teacher we should provide fairness in assessing everything that our students have done in our classroom. We all know that the major focus of fair assessment are unbiased and nondiscriminatory,it means that they are not influenced by irrelevant or subjective factors.

                       To have a clear and useful assessment system we need to begin with a clear objectives to be measured first and fulfill our purposes and needs in teaching.