Seventh Reflection of PETA - Mustika

Mustika Hati

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In the previous meeting of PETA, I learned so many new things about the topic under assessment. Actually, this topic already been taught in general class with the guest lecturer, Ibu Warih from Madaniyah School. In the last session with Ibu Warih class we discussed about effective assessment.  However, our session with Ms. Ine is discussed about part of assessment and the effective instruction in the classroom and also about assessment but deeper than previous session with Ibu Warih. There was a fact that really interesting for me, in PETA class assessment is broader than evaluation but in LTM class evaluation is broader than assessment. In PETA point of view, assessment is broader than evaluation because evaluation is only a assessing the student whereas assessment is assessing the whole class and from assessment the teacher can know the effective process in learning process.

I learned so many things about assessment through group discussion, presentation and Miss Ine explanation in the last meeting. There is many parts of assessment there are types of assessments, element and domain of assessment, assessment effect in the classroom, and the effect of motivation in learning and assessment. I could understand clearly about the topic. In my understanding assessment is a tool to measure the students’ understanding. As a tool, assessment should have some criteria which are validity, reliability, and objectivity. Validity means that the assessment must be appropriate and related between the tool and the students who want to assess by the teachers. Then reliability means the consistency of assessment which is used to assess the students. Besides, there is also model of assessment which is conventional and standard based assessment. In conventional the teacher still use conventional model that just give the follow up to the students task without evaluation whereas in standard based the teachers have been used standard model where the teachers give feedback and evaluation of the students’ task. Both of the assessment are applicable in learning process, but it depends on how the teacher apply, the students and the situation also. There is the elements of assessment which are purpose, measure, techniques, process and use. All of the elements are important, because when the teacher want to conduct the assessment, the teacher have to know about the element itself. There is also the domain of assessment which are cognitive, affective, and physicomotoric. From the domain I understand that assessment is not only about paper and pencil but include attitude, and other skill also.

The last is about assessment and motivation. I could not get the material clearly, I think it was my fault because I have not read the material before come to the class. I hope I will read the material first before come to the class.  In my opinion, assessment is very important because through assessment the teacher can check the students’ understanding and the teacher can make evaluation from the result of assessment itself. I realize that this session meets my expectation. I could get more knowledge about what assessment was, the part of assessment, how to be effective teacher is, how to apply the lessons in my class later is and etc.  As a teacher candidate it really help me to know how to give effective assessment and instruction to my student. For the next meeting, I expect that I can learn a lot of new things again through join in the online class meeting, because actually sometimes I felt difficult to understand the material through online class.