10 Advantages of Authentic Assessment Over Traditional Assessment

Here are the advantages of authentic assessment over the traditional assessment:

AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT

Advantages: 

1. Provides teachers with the true picture of how and where their students are in their learning; gives more information about their students’ strengths, weaknesses, needs and preferences that aid them in adjusting instruction towards enhanced teaching and learning.

2. Provides students many alternatives/ways to demonstrate best what they have learned; offers a wide array of interesting and challenging assessment activities.

3. Assessment is integrated with instruction.

4. Reveals and enriches the students’ high level cognitive skills: from knowledge and comprehension to analysis, synthesis, application and evaluation.

5. Enhances students’ ability to apply skills and knowledge to real lie situations; taps high order cognitive and problem solving skills.

6. Teaches the test.

7. Focuses on the growth of the learner. 

8. Learners express their understanding of the learning content using their preferred multiple forms of intelligences.

9. Provides parents and community with more observable products, proofs of the students’ learning which motivate them to support their kids’ learning more.

10. Reduces anxiety and creates a more relaxed happy atmosphere that boosts learning.