TECHNOLOGY AND AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT

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TECHNOLOGY AND AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT
In any teaching and learning process, assessment is an important activity. The most
commonly known and used evaluation is the traditional assessment, referred to as the
standardized testing, where a question with limited numbers of answers choices used to test
learners. However, still being applied but would prefer that authentic to be referred now and in
the future as this would help keep the pace with growing necessities of the world. An authentic
assessment is a form of assessment in which the students are to perform a real-world task that
demonstrates meaningful applications of useful knowledge and skills. This paper, therefore,
discusses the attempting breakthrough in the use of technology to improve the assessment of the
students learning beyond the century-old methods in widespread use today.
Technologies support for authentic assessment.
Educational instructional methods are facing multiple challenges in the new millennium.
Institutions are broadening instructional techniques and approaches to assist the improve the
education system, calling for further assessment processes methodology. The use of technology
within assessment processes has potential benefits as it engages learners more productively as
well as with greater flexibility in both learning plus assessment, also provide higher efficiency as
well as effectiveness to the stuff in managing assessment activity.
Flexibility in learners enhances when students access content as well as engagement in the
process of learning and assessment in their place of choice and time. Wikis and discussion
forums as tools help in capturing and supporting student's involvement in the assessment task
more flexible.
Technology also enables online quizzes that allow more frequent practices then formative
assessment feedbacks on the simple conceptual capability. The assessment authenticity and the

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student's sense of their learning enhanced with online role-play and simulation. With the
technology of students can present their knowledge creatively due to the capability of the Web
2.0 environment.
Technology supports authentic learning and assessment; for instance, academic electronic
records can be kept, such as marking and feedback papers and students' learning process. Also,
automated text-comparison services are used in the detection of plagiarism and give students
feedback with value for their paraphrasing as well as citation skills improvement (Osborne,
Dunne & Farrand, 2013).
Technologies help in the assessment of STEAM, nature, and dramatic play activity and
how it encourages authentic assessment.
STEAM activity.
The term STEAM stands for 'Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math". These
are five subjects that share conventional approaches in that they involve problem-solving and the
use of evidence to create knowledge. This learning happens as children try new things, play, or
explore.
With the use of technology, I would use robots during the teaching and the learning
process to assess my learners. Robotics integrates all STEAM fields as it can be involved in
problem-solving, critical thinking, engineering, coding, and math. In this case, students are
allowed to play with robots and program them to do whatever they want.as the do this, the
teacher gets to assess them (Lindeman, Jabot & Berkley, 2013).
STEAM assessment can also be through ketchup, which is very simplified but effective;
they enable students to sketch an idea from the sketched concepts. Similarly, the school can as