The Fourth Reflection with Guest Lecturer

The Fourth Reflection

Principles of Effective Teaching and Assessment

Before Mid-Term Examination, we have general class with guest lecturer from Madania Indonesian School with World Class Standard in Bogor. Her name is Ibu Warih Wijayanti. This general class talked about assessment. Actually, I do not know where and what Madania Indonesian School is. Then, I am searching about that school and I feel awesome with the school. I am really thankful to Miss Ine to invite Ibu Warih as a guest lecturer, because Ibu Warih could share her knowledge about assessment and I can improve my knowledge as a teacher candidate.

Woolfolk said that assessment is a process of gathering information about students’ learning and it is broader than a test. Assessment not only assesses the students from a test, but also it can assess from students’ activities and attitude while teaching and learning occur. While in the classroom, the teacher assesses students’ participation whether they are active or passive, the teacher observe students when they work in group, the teacher assesses students’ understanding by asking questions or listening what they say in the discussion. The reasons of the teacher need assessment divided into 3 reasons. There are the teacher provides feedback to students, the teacher identifies what students’ understanding while in teaching and learning process, and the teacher designs to inform what students doing practice during teaching and learning process. The teacher has 2 types for assessing students’ understanding such as traditional quizes & tests and performance tasks & projects. Traditional quizes & tests includes paper and pencil, selected-response, and constructed-response. These usually use in teaching and learning process and everyone have known and familiar with this tests. Whereas, performance tasks & projects are complex, open-ended, and authentic. It means the teacher will give students to be more creative to have big ideas and core tasks. The assessment divides into 2 assessment such as summative assessment and formative assessment. Summative assessment will be given from the teacher at the end of semester and usually gives a report based on school’s policy. It is like Mid-Term Examination and Final-Term Examination. Description of formative assessment just gives feedback regulary and frequently from the teacher and it will be happen in teaching and learning activities. For example, the teacher observes students when they works in a group, the teacher asks question directly in the classroom. The teacher not only assess students from the test, but also the teacher assess students’ attitude and participation in the classroom.

This topic will be meaningful for me as a teacher candidate. I know how to assess the students and why assessment the students is important. After I know about assessment, I will consider what I will choose for assessing students in the classroom. I understood about assessment, but sometimes I cannot the differences between summative and formative assessment. So, in the next meeting after Mid-Term Examination, I hope I will understand clearly about the topic and I can apply all topics for me as a teacher candidate in the future.

Yunira Noor Rachmah

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Section C – 3^rd Semester