Seventh Reflection PETA

  In the last meeting of PETA course before Christmas and New Year holiday, I learned about Effective Assessment. Actually, assessment is the one of material that I have learned in the previous meeting with Ibu Warih as guest lecturer. However, in the seventh meeting the explanation about effective assessment was deeper than before and it was new for me. At the time, I learned about what assessment and effective assessment are, differences between assessment and evaluation, elements and domain of assessment and instructions, model of assessments, and assessment effect in the classroom.

  In that meeting, I learned the material through discussion in my group and presentation of the other groups. Besides, Ms. Ine also gave clarification after the groups gave presentation. That was helpful for me, because sometime there were some groups that were unclear in their explanation. There were some points that I understood from that meeting such as the definition of assessment and effective assessment itself. From my understanding, assessment is a tool to measure students’ understanding after the teachers teach them. Meanwhile, effective assessment has to involve three points which is validity, reliability, and objectivity. In addition, I also more understand about the domain of assessment and I think it was interesting. It is because, before I learned about assessment, the thing that I knew assessment was only about score that was gotten by the students. However, assessment also involves cognitive, affective, and psycomotoric in assessing the students.

  Because of sometime I did not focus during the class, so there were some points that made me still confused. The points are about differences between assessment and evaluation by the point of view PETA course and about model of assessments. The things that I am still remember, assessment is broader that evaluation and evaluation only interpret and evaluate the result of students. Meanwhile, about model of assessment, honestly I also confused to determine what conventional and standard based are.   In my opinion, the seventh meeting was so interesting because I learned many things about assessment and effective assessment. Obviously, it will be useful for me as educator candidate in the future. It is because, usually assessment always be related with the score of students. In fact, assessment is not only about score but also the ways of students achieve the score, so that teachers need some ways to assess students in order to appropriate with the objective of the materials. The ways can use elements and domain of assessment and instructions.

   Discussing about my expectation in the seventh meeting, I thought the material was out of my expectation. At the time I thought that Ms. Ine would review the previous materials because it was the last meeting, but my guess was wrong. It turned out, we learned about assessment and effective assessment that were deeper that before. In addition, I thought it was remind for me to recheck the course outline before enter the class. For the next session, I would like to expect the meeting more interesting and increasing my comprehension. Furthermore, if I am not making a mistake, in the next meeting I will learned about how to make lesson plan and assessment in making rubric. It will be so interesting because I want to know how to make a good rubric.