Teachers’ Understanding and Use Of Authentic Assessment In the Teaching-Learning Process

Objectives and questions: In recent years, interest and support for a type of measurement that is less common has been aroused, and that is original measurement. The original measurement is different in its form and implementation, but it is not different from the common forms of measurement, density and formation measurement that are used today. Authentic assessment focuses and relies on the existence of connections between the real world outside the school and the school environment itself. Authentic assessment is an assessment task that has value and meaning for the student beyond the grade obtained. Authentic assessment is a concept popularized by among others that students engage in the use and application of skills and knowledge to address real-world problems or potential situations and give the assignment a sense of authenticity. With the concept of authentic measurement, its tools and types, there is a need to conduct research in this regard, considering the novelty of its concepts. The purpose of the current research is to develop and validate two questionnaires on the extent of teachers' use of authentic assessment and teachers' perception of authentic assessment. Therefore, the following research questions have been raised: 1) what is the level of perception of high school teachers about the concept of authentic assessment? 2) What is the rate of use of the principles of authentic assessment by high school teachers? 3) What difference do demographic variables such as gender, teaching experience, level of education, service area, and type of employment make in teachers' perception or use of the concept and principles of authentic assessment?
Research method: In this research, a quantitative research approach with a survey strategy was used. The statistical population consists of all teachers of the theoretical second secondary level (certain formal, formal experimental, contract and teaching rights) working in the dual education and training areas of Sanandaj city in the academic year 1401-1400. The sample people in this research were selected by two-stage cluster sampling method, so that in the first stage, 20 schools were randomly selected as a cluster out of 83 secondary schools, and then they were randomly selected from this school according to the number of their teachers, in order to estimate the sample size of Cochran's formula was used, and the number of 200 subjects was determined. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics methods were used to analyze the quantitative data collected by questionnaire. In the descriptive statistics section, the frequency and percentage as well as statistical indicators such as mean, standard deviation, minimum, median, maximum and skewness coefficient have been used, and in the inferential statistics section, the one-sample mean test using Student's t-distribution, comparison test The average of two independent groups was used using Student's t distribution and the comparison test of the average of several independent groups was used using one-way analysis of variance and Pearson's correlation coefficient test.
Data collection tools: To collect data from two questionnaires created by the researcher under the headings A- Questionnaire on the extent of teachers' use of authentic assessment and exploratory factor analysis using principal component analysis method with Varimax rotation, and the results of the above table show that 8 factors have special value There are more than one, the highest eigenvalue is equal to 14.62 and the lowest eigenvalue is 1.08. The first factor accounts for 28.66% of the variance and the eighth factor accounts for 2.12% of the variance, and eight factors together account for 68.56% of the variance of the questionnaire. B- The teachers' perception questionnaire was used in the classroom. Two methods of test-retest and Cronbach's alpha have been used for reliability. Exploratory factor analysis was performed using principal component analysis with varimax rotation. The results show that 7 factors have an eigenvalue greater than one, the highest eigenvalue is 11.22 and the lowest eigenvalue is 1.09. The first factor accounts for 28.78% of the variance and the seventh factor accounts for 1.092% of the variance, and eight factors together account for 70.75% of the variance of the questionnaire.
Findings: The level of perception of high school teachers about the concept of authentic assessment was more than average and with the findings of the researches that expressed the attitude and understanding of teachers about authentic assessment, it is significant. The amount of use of the selected sample teachers of authentic assessment principles was also more than average and it was in line with the findings of previous researches, he reached the conclusion in his study in Indonesia that the use of authentic assessment among teachers is more than average.
Discussion and conclusion: The obtained results indicated that the level of perception and use of authentic assessment of male and female teachers was equal, that is, gender had no effect on it. The results of this finding are also in line with the results of previous findings which showed that gender has no effect on teachers' perception and use of authentic assessment. The level of perception and the amount of use of authentic assessment was also the same in the teachers of district one and two of Sanandaj city, which indicates that the district did not affect the level of perception and the amount of use of authentic assessment. The level of teachers' perception and use of authentic assessment was equal in teachers with associate, bachelor, master and doctorate degrees and teachers with different employment methods. That is, the educational qualification and type of employment of teachers did not affect the level of perception and the amount of use of authentic assessment. In the examination of the work experience of the teachers, the result is that there is no significant linear relationship between the work experience of the teachers and the level of perception and the amount of use of authentic assessment, that is, the amount of work experience of the teachers did not affect the level of perception and the amount of use of authentic assessment. The results of this finding are also in line with previous researches that stated that work history and experience have no effect on professors' attitude and use of authentic assessment.