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21st century Classroom Assessment

        Assessment is one way of knowing your student’s ability, weakness, accomplishment and achievements. Teachers have many ways of assessing their students such as assignment, observation, project and seat works. Above all of these ways, there are times that a teacher wonders how to find ways to assess his students by using other ways not just the conventional ones. Most of the school today focuses on the different types of pencil and paper tests and neglecting how to assess students in the actual performance of a task. I found some new trends in classroom that will definitely help teachers to know their students ability within different domains.

Katherine Bradley sighted 4 new different ways in classroom assessment;

1.       Demonstration or Performance Assessment

 Students were given the chance to demonstrate a particular task that shows his or her mastery towards the subject matter. Example: the students will do a stage play that shows evidence in the mastery of different elements in a theater play.

2.       Portfolio assessment

This is a collective project where students put pieces of their work accomplished in a particular span of time given by the teacher. This shows the development of the students in doing his or her in the sets of tasks given by the teacher.

3.       Oral assessment

This assessment gives chance to those students who are not good in writing but shoe exemplary talent in speaking.  The teacher may do a question and answer activity, storytelling and public speaking. This one is another way of boosting the student’s confidence and discipline in speaking in front of numbers of audiences.

4.       Project assessment

In this assessment students are given the chance to demonstrate competency in completing the project. Students are given enough time to think, plan and conceptualize the output that is expected from them.

 Aside from those type of assessment there another types I read from another source.

1. Peer review -This type enables to student to cooperate with his or her partner in doing reviews in their topic. This gives them the sense of responsibility to cooperate and do their part as a partner in order to make a successful exchange of ideas within the group mates.
2. Exhibition- Exhibition makes the student showcase their talent and works. Exhibits are one of the good activities where sets of different talent and work pieces are being put in specific gallery or place where lot of people get to see their outputs.

Learning can be more fun if student’s abilities will be accommodated and assessed properly. We are in a rapidly evolving world which means newest thing today may be the oldest stuff tomorrow. Let’s get classroom and assessment be a part of the changes because student are the evidence of change. Students easily adapt to modern times and their capabilities are evolving so fast that’s why conventional assessment may not be so suitable in determining their knowledge and skill. As teachers, creativity is always a tool to get along with the ever changing world.