Abstract
Traditional assessment versus authentic assessment. During last years, new trends on evaluation have appeared on educational context. These new alternatives pretend to replace traditional assessment based on standarized tests. In USA, standarized tests have been nearly the only way to assess academic performance during last decades, in fact, an only test was enough to decide educational and labour opportunities of a person. This kind of evaluation has received many criticisms by researchers and teachers, who think this model does not detect real learning. The term authentic assessment gathers some alternatives to assess people by a different way. People are asked for constructing their responses in a significant context. These assessments remark not only result but process too.
