ABSTRACT
This chapter explains and recommends several types of authentic assessments that will help the teachers know their students' strengths and needs in both their content learning and their literacy. It addresses several major issues relating to assessment in general. The chapter explains several literacy assessment strategies the teachers can use in their classroom to inform instruction. It addresses issues relating to the self-assessment of their instruction and their growth as a content area teacher who is concerned with students' literacy development. Assessment and teaching go hand in hand and must be consistent. A portfolio is a collection of representative student work that shows progress. As a type of performance based assessment, portfolios are extremely popular with many content area teachers. S. W. Valencia, in an attempt to look into the literacy assessment, predicts the strengthening of classroom-based assessment, much of it in the form of performance assessment.
