Reflecton 13

ASSESSMENT II

OK, we talk about assessment. Again!!! Yes, we must do it. In last week, we are talk about assessment as, for and of learning. Just remembering, assessment as learning relates with student assessment and for learning relates with teacher assessment and of learning is about assessment that is given by curriculum. Assessment as and for learning always on going in teaching and learning process but of leaning always is ongoing at the end of teaching and learning process.

Actually as a teacher, we must collect any data from teaching and learning process. So, what are ways that we can use? In the last PETA class, I knew the general ways to collect data just like:

1.       Student products

2.       Oral questioning

3.       Observation

From three ways above, we can collect all data to assessment process. And I think that the ways could represent how far students could understand the material are.

After we knew how to collect data, don’t forget to know about what domains that we must assess are. Every student has their own ability, and we must be objective when we assess them. So we have three domains of classroom assessment, they are:

1.       Cognitive             :   students understanding

2.       Affective             :   students behaviors, attitudes, or active involve or not

3.       Psychomotor     :   doing performance task

By these domains, teacher has a guide to assess student’s ability.

In this modern style, we have standard based model to teaching and learning process, to know how the standard work is. Please check this scheme:

Why the scheme is like that? I will share my understanding about the scheme. First, we must make a plan for teaching and learning process. Second, we do our plan in teaching and learning process. Third, after teaching and learning process, we assess our students understanding, if the result is students didn’t understand we must back to teach again and make sure that our students understand about the material. And if students understand about the material, we can move to another instruction and don’t forget to give feedback to their understanding.

Now, we talk about the functions of assessment. They are:

1.       Readiness   :   to determine pre-requisite knowledge

2.       Placement  :   to determine entry performance

3.       Formative   :   to monitoring learning progress, to provide continuous feedback instructional decisions

4.       Diagnostic   :   to determine the causes of personal learning difficulties, to assess achievement of the end of instruction

Formative is always used to alter or improve, so it’s on going in teaching and learning process. And summative is used to evaluate, so it’s at the end of teaching and learning process.

In the last, we have study about portfolio, checklist, anecdotal record, and grading. Portfolio and anecdotal record are tools that we can use to assess students. In the portfolio and anecdotal record, we can know how far they understand about the materials. Checklist and grading are ways to make assess student’s task.