Role of Assessment in Supporting Teaching and Learning

            In this session, we learned more about what is the real assessment and also its function and how important it for assessing our students. Like usual my lecturer divided us became some group. There, every group had their own duty. For the example was like explore more about the explanation about assessment. From that meeting I got clear meaning between assessment and evaluation. First is assessment, a group there give explanation that assessment is collecting and interpreting all information about students. After that the teacher could get the authentic result of the students’ ability. Then about evaluation, this is about collecting data without analyzing. From this I got a result that assessment is wider than evaluation.

There was also element of classroom assessment. The steps were purposeà measurementàevaluationàuseà diagnosis, grading & instruction. Then about domain of classroom assessment there are cognitive, affective and psychomotor.  

Model of instruction & assessment was interesting and confusing enough for me. We talked about conventional model; there is also some step that is use in that model. The second is standards-based model, actually both of the models have the same aim in getting result of students.

If we talk about assessment we are going to find purposed and also process of assessment. Besides that, we are going to learn about effect of class room based assessment on students and influencing motivation through instruction and assessment too.

From that day I begin to learn how important assessment is…. I have to learn more about it and I have to be able to apply it in my future when I am an Educator.

Nawan Riyan Zufar

2011120060

English department