I do like authentic assessments quite a bit, it is important in my own profession of law enforcement. Authentic assessment is a type of assessment in which students use their understanding of a subject to solve real world situations and problems. This is what law enforcement officers have to do every day, in my opinion.

If given the opportunity I would sue both types of testing in the classroom, but online it is not always quite so possible to do this. I have always leaned towards testing that puts the student into a situation like they would be faced with in the real world and then encourage them to research the topic fully and respond.

I saw a previous comment by an instructor about reflections journals, I think these are great tools for learning, after all, are we not interested in how the student can make sense out of what they are learning and put it to use?

While doing a bit of research on the topics I saw the following quote, what is your opinion about what the author said? "Assessing learning alone is not sufficient because the ultimate success of students is also dependent upon their motivation and commitment to learning."