Rubric Assessment

In PETA class yesterday I have learned how to assess the work of other one. Assessing something is not easy to do, I felt. When I assess the picture of my friends, I am confused about how to assess the picture. And then, my assessment and other friends is different.  I can say the picture is good but not for my friends, they can say this is not good based of their opinion. This cases same with when we become a teacher who must give an assessment to the students’ work. Assessment of a teacher to the students’ work is not necessary the same as assess a good or not good of the picture. Teacher assessment should be objective in according with rubric assessment. Why? For assessment students’ work is not the same as assess paint in gallery.. Likewise, if teacher use classroom assessments only based on a subjective opinion are not the same without a rubric of other teacher and this is not clear or not fair for students. For that, teacher can’t just subjectively assess student’s understanding in task but there should be rubric assessment that contain the purpose of the assessment was done.

          Assessment purpose is to determine whether learning objective has been reached and the value teacher can motive students to study hard. For the first objective, to see how far of students understanding, this is the future assessment result that can be used by teacher to develop ways and methods of learning the next. For example, when teacher teach students using group discussion methods and the value of the students are increase, then the methods are appropriate in this study. As well as students, from the result assessment that students get will be the reference and motivation to improve their knowledge and abilities.

Of some objective assessment above, teacher need rubric assessment to assess students work. But, in educational seminars on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 said that Indonesian uses character education curriculum so that teacher not only assessing students cognitive, also assess affective or character of students themselves. As we know it tends to assess character is subjective. Adviser at that seminar also said that is impossible when we will add another new class hours again, for implementing character education curriculum.  And then, this curriculum should be applied to each lesson, so what kind of rubric assessment for character education curriculum that can use teacher to assess their students? In other side is not easy to assess if there is no rubric. Character Education is also very necessary of this country as implementing of Pancasila, ethical life ad consciousness of the nation’s value. So that, this is our job as the generation of teacher education to find it for Indonesia education better.

By: Luh Putu Ariasih

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