\ EPISODE 4

WORK ME ON

Name of FS Student:    Jomari G. Rodriguez Course:               Bachelor of Secondary Education Resource Teacher:       Mrs.Marie Rose Ramos Cooperating School:    Isabela National High School

MY TARGET:

     At the end of this activity, you will be skillful in designing process – oriented performance assessment.

MY TASK:

    After your observation experience you now have a deeply and principled understanding of the concepts of authentic assessment used in the classroom. You can now go through the process of designing performance assessment by the following these steps:

1.      Visit a class and identify performance-based activities.

2.      Choose one performance-based activity and study its process.

                      3.      Design a performance assessment plan for the activity you have chosen.

                    4.      Collect samples of performance-based assessment tools
5.      Reflect on your experience.

In observing a class, take note of important observations of the performance-based activity in the classroom. Make a checklist of the important things you want to consider in your assessment planning. Use the activity form provided for you. You may use format of process-oriented assessment that you have taken in your assessment 2 class. The rubrics are part and parcel of this assessment plan.

   

OBSERVATION NOTES

Name of the School Observed:   Isabela National High School    School Address:                            Claravall St., San Vicente, Ilagan, Isabela    Date Visited:                                   February 17, 2015    Grade/Year Level:                          4th Year-Cattleya    Subject Area:                                 Science (Research)

Describe in bullets the performance-based activity you observe.                  *The instruction given by the teacher is clearly understand by                     the students.           *The instructions follow an orderly sequence.           *the teacher facilitates the learners while doing their activity.

 

       

   Based on your observation, make a checklist of the important things you wish to consider in your performance-based assessment plan.

MY CHECKLIST ·         In making a Laboratory Activity, I wish to add the following considerations in assessing the performance of the students -          The students must make their activity clean. -          All members in the group must cooperate. -          Use the laboratory apparatus in a proper way. -          Using a write-up, students must write a detailed and well explained observation in their activity.

Notes On My Process-Oriented Assessment Plan

Name of the School Observed:   Isabela National High School        School Address:                            Claravall St., San Vicente, Ilagan, Isabela        Date Visited:                                   February 17, 2015        Grade/Year Level:                          4th Year-Cattleya         Subject Area:                                 Science (Research)

What are the best features of my process-oriented performance assessment design? -          The students can know the importance and uses of apparatus in their activity. -          The design is used to protect every student from harmful substances that present in their activity. -          The students can used their critical and practical abilities in making their task.

What specific conditions are necessary for a successful use of my process-oriented performance assessment design? -          The materials use must be harmless and safe to use. -          The place where students perform their activity must be conducive. -          The materials use in the task must be available.

What basic points should the user of this design consider?      The user must use a scoring rubric’s in order to assess well the learners. -          The cleanliness in making the activity. -          The experiment must finish at the exact time. -          The cooperation of the group.

ANALYSIS:

1. Why do teachers need to give attention to the students’ process-oriented tasks? Why do they need to assess them?

            The students can’t perform the task without any process given by the teacher because it stands as a basis for them in making their tasks.

            Teachers need to assess their learners to know if their students can follow and understand the process that they give. Process-oriented based is used to test student’s ability in performing a task.

2.      In what conditions can the process-oriented performance assessment be used appropriately?

            Process-oriented performance assessment can be used appropriately in certain activities such as:

1.      Baking, handicraft, computer, sewing etc, in TLE.

2.      Laboratory, research works in Science.

3.      Problem solving in Mathematics.

REFLECTION:

      As a future educator, I would try my very best to follow the procedures and strategies used by my resource teacher. I want to teach the skills of critical and creative thinking to my students by the use of my performance objectives.

        This assessment tools that I learned in this subject gives me knowledge that I may use in the future, it will be may basis that I want to apply to let my students work independently and to let them explore, to learn various situations happens in real-life that helps them to boost their creative minds.

EPISODE 3

NAME of FS Student: JOMARI GARCIA RODRIGUEZ

Course: BSE-IIIA

Resource Teacher: MRS. MARIE ROSE RAMOS

Cooperating School: ISABELA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL (INHS)

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 to the following task:

1.   Visit a classroom and interview a 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 INTERVIEW NOTES

•Why authentic assessment is very important tools in assessing a student?      > In assessing student’s ability, knowledge, and skills inside the classroom, authentic assessment is very important because it focuses to the whole performance of every learner. • Is there any process to be follow?      > In laboratory works or experiment that can be applied in real-world setting, students must be able to follow a particular process in order for them to come up with a good product. • How was authentic assessment used?      > We used authentic assessment including rubrics and score cards to assess learners. It is logically used to find out how well we have attained our lesson objective.

ANALYSIS:

1. What is authentic assessment?

        > Authentic assessment is a process on how teachers assessed their students based on their performances inside the classroom. It is designed for students to build their practical thinking that they apply in real-life situations.

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

        > Authentic assessment is designed and used by the teacher in experimentation's and research works, wherein she uses a rubrics or score cards in order to assess her learners easily.

        > In Science, product is not only the basis to measure learning because it is inter-connected to the materials and technique used in the given activity, and without this two we can’t produce a good product. 

What are your insights and feelings about the use of authentic assessment?

          > In authentic assessment the teacher stands as a facilitator. Thus, they let students become creative, imaginative and exploration that they can be used in their future.

 Describe how the teacher used authentic assessment.

          > The teacher used the authentic assessment in a proper and fair manner. It is valid assessment tools because it matches with her lesson objective.

How did you feel about the teacher’s experience in the use of authentic assessment?

          >I feel comfortable because the teacher’s experience in the use of authentic assessment is in high. As a future educator I am very impressed to see the great result of using this assessment tools and the great impact of it to the learners.

What could be the gains of the students and teachers in using authentic assessment?

          > By the help of authentic assessment students gained their self-esteem and boosted their creativity and critical thinking in performing a task. Teachers stands only as a facilitator and it is easier for them because the only thing they do is to let their students learn independently and experienced a various task that applied in real-life setting.

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

        > In their research activity, student’s portfolio is improving. It is from the basic to complex formation, to help students achieved their product by using their critical and practical thinking.