Authentic Assesment

        Authentic assessment in Physics teaching is a kind evaluation happened in the classroom, to evaluate all aspects of student’s achievement.

According to the general understanding, there are three aspects –called domain– related to what teacher should evaluate in each student, those are (1) cognitive domain, (2) affective domain, and (3) psychomotor domain.

1. Cognitive domain refers to knowledge which has been mastered by student during lesson.

2. Affective domain refers to some aspects which followed by some one’s behavior such as interest, responsibility, eagerness in doing something, pleasant, carefulness, accurateness, etc.

3. Psychomotor domain refers to some aspects which showing some body in doing work such as skillful, quick, neat, finish excellent, etc.

When student studying Physics in the classroom, they are not only learning about knowledge, but also working with calculation or counting when they get exercise from teacher, presenting their homework in front of the class, answer question raised by teacher or other students, and so on.

In authentic assessment, all kinds of student’s activities are evaluated with a format according to the type of evaluation.

 There are 7 (seven) types of evaluation, those are: 

1. Paper and pencil (written) test as usual.
2. Oral test – as usual.
3. Evaluation on performance – when the student perform their capability in doing something about lesson.  
4. Evaluation on product – result after the student make something related to the lesson. 
5. Evaluation on process – when the student doing something related to the lesson.
6. Evaluation on project – the work is usually done by a group of students made by them in rather long time, such as two weeks or a month, (to be evaluated by process and product)   
7. Evaluation on portfolio – all kinds of products belonging to the students           

To see the meaning of authentic assessment, the Physics teacher should evaluate all kinds of what students doing during or after the lesson finish.  

So, let’s begin with a topic in Physics teaching!

by : Prof.Dr.Suharsimi Arikunto