My Seventh Reflection, About Assessment

An assessment is teachers’ special tool in measuring students’ understanding. In the last session of PETA, I learnt many things about assessment. I felt happy to learn this topic because I think it is so important and will help us in our real world in teaching later.

The first is about the goal of assessment. As stated before, assessment is for measuring students’ understanding. By assessment, we can also measure our ability in explaining the material to our students. When we can serve our material well, one of the sign is our students can catch and good in presenting at the time of assessment.

An assessment needs to consider the term of students variety of intelligencies. So, our creative in providing various type of assessment is a compulsory. We should provide an assessment that accomodates those children multiple intelligencies.

I learnt also about the elements of assessment, the elements, model, domain, and the effect of assessment. I interest about the effect of assessment. As stated in the presentation group before, a good assessment will stimulate the motivation of students. it relates also with the feedback whether from teacher or students itself.

Student will have a higher motivation if the form of assessment engage the creativity and analitycal in the assessment. I also remember about the Bloom’s Taxonomy where the highest level is about creating something. So, I believe that a good assessment also needs to be built in the form of stimulating students to create something.

Assessment doesn’t stop when the time of assessment ends. A good assessment can be used as our tool for analysing the whole process of learning and teaching activity. It relates to the function of assessment as a material of evaluation.

The thing that I still need to improve is about the term of analysing assessment’s result. The result of assessment of course needs to be explored to get the information we need; whether students’ competence or our teaching evaluation.

I hope the next material will be given clearly and in different method as this one.