Assessment - Abdul Majid R (2011120053)

     It was a guest lecturer who had come in the last meeting. Her name was Ibu Warih, a teacher from Bogor, and we had learnt about assessment. In my opinion, assessment was about grading the students' result of study, but from what we have learnt in the last meeting, assessment was a process of gathering information about students' learning. From all materials that had learnt, the new things that I had learnt was about summative and formative assessment. I didn't know that there were kinds of assessment. I realized that I had received both summative and formative assessment when I was studying in the school, until now.

     From all the materials that have I had learnt, I understood clearly about summative and formative assessment, because I got both formative and summative assessment. Formative assessment was assessment that the teacher did for knowing the students' growth in learning process. I mean that this assessment did on going by teacher. An example from this assessment such routines assessment.  Summative assessment was assessment that teacher did in the end of time in learning. I mean that this assessment was usually given by report such in the end of semester.

     I did not really understand about how our assessment could to be effective for the students. I also took a note from lecturer's explanation, that the assessment could be effective if it was not only did once, it was also done by using a variety methods and formats. I just got a little from the explanation, and maybe I need to know and understand about that. I had to learn more about how our assessment could be effective, because it was important for me as a teacher candidate, and effective teacher was very important for all teachers.

     The last meeting was exciting, because it was designed interestingly. Although I got explanation from the lecturer, I also learnt from our friends. I learnt not only with friends of my class, I also learnt with friends of other classes.

     I thought the subject in last meeting was very important for me as a teacher candidate. We as teacher candidate had to assess our students later. If we did not know how to assess our students equally and fairly, it would be a problem for us as teachers. Teacher should be wise, by being wise the teacher could think wisely too, and could to give an assessment wisely.

     The last meeting met my expectation, I expected that the last meeting and guest lecturer was usually interesting and meaningful. I also expected that I would learn about assessment and how to assess our students. I expected that we would learn about the various types of assessment that could be applied in the learning activity, of course could be effective.