Ahmad Apriyanto's Reflection

Talking about assessment, it’s not easy to be done. It’s not just give some questions to the students, then ask them to answer, and then we check it, then voilla……we already assess them. It could be an assessment, but we have to assess them deeper. Not only just their understanding in the end, but also their process to meet the understanding itself.

Assessment as learning, assessment of learning, and assessment for learning, three of them succeed to make me confused last week because for me, all of them are quiet similar. If I’m not mistaken, some differences that I know are:

- Assessment of learning is designed by the teachers; they have to design some strategies to meet students’ understanding.

- Assessment for learning needs teacher and students cooperation to make a better learning in the next meeting. It shows students’ progression in learning, describes them.

- Assessment as learning tends to the students’ involvement in assessing themselves. They can assess themselves; also can assess their friends, so the assessment doesn’t always come from the teacher.

One meeting to explore those-three-assessments does not enough for me, meanwhile last week we learned them just based on our perception. Sometimes, there is something doubt if I just learn something by my perception, I need the conclusion from the master of this subject to make sure that our perceptions are not wrong.

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