%T AUNTHENTIC ASSESSMENT IN THE LEARNING OF SOCIAL STUDIES %P 122-128 %L repository207 %I Yogyakarta State University %J International Conference on Educational Research and Evaluation (ICERE) %A Rudy Gunawan %X The purpose of this research is to know how authentic assessment given in social studies. Learning social studies in junior high school includes materials of History, Geography, Economics and Sociology. In monodisciplinary, each of these materials have characteristics and a different way in the planning, implementation and evaluation. But in term of interdisciplinary, evaluation was made in order to provide a throught assessment. In an authentic assessment of students are required to show meaningful tasks then assessed directly in the classroom. Nevertheless, authentic assessment is not only implement in the classroom, but also can assess the tasks performed outside the classroom with project-based learning. The method used in this research is a survey conducted for teachers of social studies in Jakarta. The results showed that an authentic assessment can help students to display meaningful tasks then assessed directly in the classroom. However, authentic assessment is not only implemented in the classroom, but also can assess the tasks performed outside the classroom with project-based learning. %D 2016