**7.4. Presentations and demonstrations**

Presentations and demonstrations are both authentic assessment techniques that are important in active learning classrooms [28]. When learners are required to present and demonstrate their work to an audience inside and outside the classroom, there is a chance to get feedback from the audiences and learn from it to improve their performance. These two assessment methods provide students with the opportunity to make the connection between their learning and real-world learning environments.

In relation to each of the abovementioned assessment methods, there should be appropriate and timely feedback. Feedback is an information provided by an agent (e.g., teacher, peer, self, book, experience) regarding aspects of one's performance or understanding [34]. Sadler [35] noted that giving detailed feedback for students to their work, with suggestions for improvement, should become a common practice in higher education. Hattie and Timperley [34] also added that effective feedback is characterized by its clarity, purposefulness, meaningfulness, and compatibility with students' prior knowledge. Therefore, if the assessment is supported by the provision of effective and appropriate feedback in the active learning process, it enhances the students learning and makes them competent in their field of study.
