The forth Reflection (guest lecturer) Mahgda Melita

In the fourth meeting of PETA course, we had a guest lecturer from Bogor, her name is Bu Warih. I learned about class assessment in this session. Actually this is something new for me, because I never learn about this thing before. I learn about Effective Assessment, there are two kinds of effective assessment, there are Summative and Formative Assessment. Summative Assessment is assessment that teacher gives in the end of the learning and Formative Assessment is assessment that teacher does along the learning process.

I really understood about summative assessment, actually this kind of assessment can assess several elements simultaneously: it informs and improves student learning and the teaching process. So it will help teacher to know how deep the students understand about the lesson in the end of the learning process, it also help teacher to prepare the next step of the learning because teacher can see the real demonstration of the learning result from the students by measuring understanding of the central idea, and prompts students towards action.

In this session I learn many new thing, but over all I can understand all the material. May be just find some difficulties about how to differentiate the summative and formative assessment, but I will learn more about it by reading the material and search another resources to help me to find out the differences and help me to understand more.

I really get an interesting learning experience today, because the session run well and the lecturer can manage the class well, so all of the students fell interested to join the class. The way the lecturer explain the material also easy to understand, she also create the learning process become an active learning class. She stimulates us to find out more by our self, so it practices our critical thinking.

I think what I got today, is really meaningful for me as teacher candidate. Today lesson was helpful for me, because in the future I can use what I get today in my class, I can use this to assess my student and as the introspection tool for me as the teacher to assess how deep my students understand my lesson, and how the way I prepare the next stage of my teaching.Today Session is as what I expect, I hope I get new thing that will be useful for me as teacher candidate.