The Range of the Availability and Practice of Authentic Assessment Competencies for Intermediate Stage Teachers in Sharurah Governorate

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the range of the availability and practice of authentic assessment competencies for intermediate stage teachers in Sharurah governorate, and addition to known the effect of these variables (gender, major, experience)on The range of the availability and practice of authentic assessment competencies . a questionnaire was designed which consisted of (44) items measuring five domains of the availability and practice of authentic assessment strategies competencies .It was applied on a sample which consisted of (67) teachers. results of the study showed that the range of the availability and practice of authentic assessment competencies  were highly degree , there were no statistically significant differences were found in the range of the availability and practice of authentic assessment competencies  due to the influence of some variables: (gender, major).and differences were found due to the experience variable, also the result show that a high Correlation between availability and the practice for authentic assessment competencies, and there is a statistically significant effect between the degree of availability of authentic assessment competencies and the degree of  practice of authentic assessment competencies, and we reached to a multiple regression equation, The study included many recommendations, The most important one was the necessity of providing training programs for teachers in the field of modern assessment strategies in order to improve the ability of teachers in this field.

Keywords: Learning  competencies , Authentic assessment, Assessment strategies, Intermediate stage.