Authentic Assessment: Human's Reverting In Educational Assessment

In the process of human's meaning and value being asked for and strived for in educational assessment, authentic assessment as a new concept is created, and it pursues actively human's reverting in educational assessment. The essence of authentic assessment is human's assessment that focuses on individuality, creativity and authenticity. In authentic assessment, a person is creating life and selecting freely with subject-oriented status, so he/she can live in authentic life-world. Authentic assessment is based on establishing the status, exposing the meaning and identifying the value of human as subject. Authentic assessment continues to create, construct and reconstruct accordingly the human's meaning and value in the reflection and critique of educational assessment through its praxis, which contributes to develop educational assessment. Based on the concept of Human Assessment, authentic assessment is changing traditional evaluation into various ways so that it can deepen the understanding by its reflection, extend the views through its innovation, enrich the connotation in its evolution of educational assessment. In the real classroom, although there are different forms of authentic assessment of students, they inherit the concept of Human Assessment, which materialize the human meaning and value in assessment in diverse ways and realize the human's reverting in the implementation of student assessment. Authentic assessment is grounded on empiric natural education, humanistic curriculum and constructive instruction in classroom. It states that students apply mastered knowledge and skills in real-word and in contexts that closely resemble actual situation by themselves in which authentic tasks are solved, so that they can develop, demonstrate and identify their knowledge, abilities, skills and their affection, attitude that are used in problem-solving by creative activities. With participating, negotiating and constructing actively tasks designing, performance observing, product recording and rubric developing of authentic assessment, students can: * Be clear about what they should know and should be able to do;* Improve and develop them in accomplishing authentic tasks;* Display and demonstrate them in all kinds of ways;* Receive much information and feedback from assessment reports. Authentic assessment strives to integrate assessment into teaching and learning in the classroom. It means that assessment serves instruction generating dynamically in the classroom and provides enough and authentic information about students for teachers in instruction-decision, provides feedback for students and motivates them. On another hand, based on the nature of authentic assessment and instructional needs , it is embedded in classroom instructional activities, which makes assessment can situated or anchored; because of the needs of classroom assessment, instruction can be turned into authentic assessment, too.