Having read Anderson's article, what's your take on her argument 'from traditional assessment to alternative assessment in HE'. Give your reasons for the stand taken.

Changes need to be taken into account in assessment. The traditional assessment treats learning as a passive process. So, students are treated as empty vessel that do not know anything about the topics that they will learn in class. So, the instructor will fill their empty vessel without make them have chance to explore the subjects by their own. Therefore, traditional assessment is more towards teacher-oriented. Conversely, alternative assessment will be in another way round. It treats learning as an active process. Students have to explore by their own and at the same time, instructor has to assist them directly or indirectly.

Next, traditional assessment separates process from product. This type of assessment focuses more on the product rather than the process of what, how, and why students learn. Alternative assessment emphasises the process as well as the product of learning.

Alternative assessment focuses on the collaboration of the students in learning. The sharing of ideas and knowledge among the students can be done by alternative assessment instead of traditional assessment. Therefore, students have the chance to make decision that can be used in evaluation process. Apart from that, rubrics can be used to rate the criteria, and they can engage in peer and self-evaluation as well.