Are Many Assignments Effective?

As we know, teacher is a facilitator for students. Teacher should deliver materials to students as clearly as they could. Teacher wants their students can reach the learning goals and hope the students can develop their knowledge. To know whether the students have developed their knowledge or not, teacher should assess them to take score from students’ assignments “Practise makes perfect”! That is what many teachers think about. Many teachers think that with doing so many practise, students will understand the concept and develop their knowledge easily. That is why many teachers give so many assignments for the students.

In other side, some of the students still feel frustrated when teacher gives them so many assignments. They think that doing too many assignment make them confuse and under pressure.  Do you feel the same like in this case? :p Actually, when they doing assignment they will learn something from that assignment or learning process, but if the teacher gives too many assignments, they will just do it to get the score. Here we can see that the students just do the assignment without knowing the meaning of assignment that teacher think about.  Teacher assess students and the students just do assessment of learning, and do not realize about assessment for learning and assessment as learning. Teacher sometimes ignore students’missconcept after they assess the students. Teacher continue the lesson without checking whether the students have understood about th concept or not.

Before we learn about assessment model in PETA, we know about conventional model which teacher should make lesson plan, apply it in classroom, give post-test to students to know their score, then they continue the lesson without knowing students’understanding. But, after we have already learned in PETA course,  we have been knowing about standard based model. It is about teaching model for teacher  to teach the students. Our group thought that standard based model is the best model to teach. First step in based model is how to make a plan (lesson plan) for each meeting, after that teacher can teach the students based on lesson plan. Next steps, teacher gives test or quiz to the students, from that, teacher can know whether the students understand about the material which teacher given. If there are some students who get low score, teacher should not move to the next lesson, but teacher should try another plan that can make the students mre understand. Teacher should give more practice for them, teacher should give feedback, then teacher can move to the next lesson.

Now we have two questions. As a teacher candidates, What do you think about this issue? And How can you solve that issue? You may comment and giving another opinions J

Best Regards,

Group 3 :

Jenni Farida (2010110003)

Ewa Hanifa Hasmaningrum (2010110007)

Wirmandi Pamungkas (2010110011)

Luh Putu Ariasih (2010110031)