Peta 4^th Reflection

On the previous meeting of PETA subject I learned many new things about assessment. I learned about what is effective assessment, the types of assessment, and strategies on how we couldassess our students effectively. At that time, the lecturer was a guest from other school, we called her IbuWarih.

From that meeting, I understood clearly about what is assessment, type of assessment and the assessment strategies. Assessment was not only assessed students from their grade, but also from their development from time to time. There were two types of assessment, summative and formative assessment. Summative assessment is an assessment that sums up the entire students grade in one semester. The aim of this assessment is to give teachers clear view about students’ understanding in one semester. The real example of this assessment is the final report which usually received by the students in the end of semester. Formative assessment is an assessment that is conducted simultaneously during the semester. It provides teacher with information about students’ actual knowledge and understanding, so teacher could gain knowledge and description to plan strategies in the next learning.

There were several strategies which were used to assess students. There were observations, performance assessment, process-focused assessment, selected responses, and open-ended tasks.  Observations assessment, observe students often and regularly from wide angle (whole class) to focus on various activities, and from non-participants to participants. This assessment is not typically scored or goaled. Performance assessments assess students with goal directed task integrated with established criteria. Process-focused assessment focuses on noting students typical and non-typical behaviors and synthesizes them with evidence from different context to increase validity. Selected response assesses only selected students in order to find special cases. Open-ended tasks provide situation where students are given stimulus and asked to pour their original ideas.

There were some things that I have not understood in the meeting. First is about how we decide which strategies we should use for assessing our students. Second, is how do I use tools in supporting the assessment strategies. To overcome this trouble I prefer to read more from the some textbooks, e-books, and also from the moodle.

Overall, the 4^th session of PETA was very interesting. I did many interesting activities with my group in solving various tasks. From designing the presentation, solving the case problem, and last the gallery walk. The lesson met my expectation. There were many new activities in learning that I never did before and the teacher also delivered the material with a good preparation. Beside that this lesson was very meaningful for me, because without knowing the effective assessment I could not be an effective teacher that could give good influence to my students.

For the next session, I expect there will be more interesting activities in class, and also class discussion tosolve many problems which are often happened in real world.

Derry RahmatRamdhani
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