EDU 36: Assessment of Learning 2
Lesson 2
Learning Targets for Performance and Product-Oriented Assessment
Desired Significant Learning Outcomes
In this lesson, you are expected to:
1. formulate learning targets that can be assessed through performance and product-oriented
assessment; and
2. create an assessment plan using alternative method of assessment.
Significant Culminating Performance Task and Success Indicators
Performance Task
Develop an assessment plan where appropriate
alternative assessment methods are matched
with specific learning targets
Success Indicator
Given the competencies targeted for
instruction, one should be able to develop an
assessment plan where appropriate alternative
assessment methods are used to assess
learning targets.
What are the learning targets for an alternative assessment?
Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives in the Affective Domain
1. Receiving – awareness or passive attention to a phenomenon or stimulus
2. Responding – active attention and response to a particular phenomenon or stimulus
3. Valuing – attaching value or worth to a phenomenon or object. Valuing may range from
acceptance to commitment.
4. Organization – organizing value into priorities by comparing, relating, and synthesizing
specific values
5. Internalizing values/characterization by a value or value complex – having a personal
value system that is now a characteristic of the learner
Simpson’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives in the Psychomotor Domain
1. Perception – the ability to use sensory cues to guide motor activity
2. Set – the mental, physical, and emotional sets that predispose a person’s response to
different situations
3. Guided response – demonstration of a complex skill through guided practice like imitation
and trial and error
4. Mechanism – learned responses have become habitual and movements can be performed
with some degree of confidence and proficiency
5. Complex overt response – performance of motor acts that involve complex movement
patterns in a quick, accurate, and highly coordinated manner. Characterized by automatic
performance and performance without hesitation
6. Adaptation – psychomotor skills are well developed, and the person can modify the
movement patterns to fit special requirements
7. Origination – Creating new movement patterns to fit a particular situation or specific
problem. Learning outcomes emphasize creativity based on highly developed skills.
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Learning Targets
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Knowledge targets
Reasoning targets
Skills targets
Product targets
Affective targets
What are the appropriate alternative methods of assessment for learning targets?
Learning Targets
Skill
Product
Affect
PerformanceOriented
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Product-Oriented
Portfolio
Self-Report Scale
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Note: More checks mean better matches.
Concept Check
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What is the difference between educational objectives and learning targets?
What are the common typologies of learning targets?
Why is it important that learning targets and assessment tasks/activities are matched?
What are the three learning target types that are best assessed through alternative assessment
methods? Why?
Activity 2
Now select a specific lesson for a subject area and grade level that you think you should be able to
teach and handle when you are already a teacher in a school. Using the DepEd Curriculum Guide for
the subject, create an assessment plan for student learning by formulating learning targets that can be
best assessed using alternative methods of assessment (you may focus on skills, products, affective,
or any combination of these learning targets). Then, propose specific nontraditional assessment tasks
or activities to measure the identified learning targets.
Assessment Plan Using Alternative Assessment Methods
Subject
Specific Lesson
Learning Outcome/s/
Instructional Objectives
Learning Targets
Assessment Task/Activity
(Alternative)
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Why use this assessment
task/activity?
How does this assessment
task/activity help you improve
your instruction?
How does this assessment
task/activity help your students
achieve the intended learning
outcomes?
Reflection
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Examine the learning target/s you have developed. Are satisfied with it/them?
Is there something you want to change or improve in the learning target/s? Why?
What type of learning targets did you use in your learning targets? Why?
What was your basis for selecting the alternative assessment method to measure the learning
targets? Why?
5. How did the task in help you understand the use of alternative assessment for learning?
Reference: Balagtas, M. U. et al. (2020). Assessment in learning 2 (1st ed.). Rex Book Store, Inc.
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