From knowledge to action to become compentent people: from traditional to authentic assessment.

The authors, in the following article, examine the assessment of skills , skill assessment is to involve those who are assessed in real tasks to apply their knowledge in contexts of real life. Assessment of skills was born as a response to social demands that require more and more competent and able persons especially to apply their knowledge in different contexts. A careful assessment of skills demands a genuine assessment , it is characterized as assessment rather than " what you know " , but above "what you can do with what you know ." Assessment of skills requires a multiplicity of points of view because of the complex nature of skills, we could talk about triangulation in skills assessment. It requires three elements, the subjective dimension, which regards self-assessment , the inter-subjective dimension , which deals with social issues , the objective dimension , the one typically used in the assessment of knowledge. The authors point out that the assessment of skills stand out from the assessment of knowledge because it is : realistic, innovative, constructive , contextualized , promotional uses. At the end the authors give some example of proofs of skills assessment.