Journal Reflection: Classroom Assessment

By: Ira Ernawati

The last PETA class was really nice class. I enjoyed this class. The lecture gave us some different activities for example by asking us to draw some pictures to show our thought. It was really challenging. Through those activities all students could share about their ideas and also their feeling easily. Hence the interaction that we did was not boring. The other activity was discussion about assessment.

Some people may think that assessment is a test but the true definition of it is not only about test. Assessment is an instrument which is can be used to collect and interpret data of students through test or exercises. By giving assessment so a teacher can know the progress of students in learning process.

There are three general ways to collect data of students. Those are students’ product, observation and oral question.  We can get the students’ product such as by giving test them or asking them to making journal. Then we can see their result. The observation can be done during conducting activity in the class and also the oral question. It can be given to students during teaching and learning process.

The assessment that is given to students has to consider to the purpose, measurement, use, and evaluation of the assessment itself. The purpose of it must be must be clear, what for it is. Here a teacher also should consider to students’ need and level. Hence it is not useless and a teacher can get what he / she want. To achieve the purpose, the teacher can use a rubric in assessing their students. The measurement that a teacher uses in assessing students must be clear and it also has to consider in students’ multiple intelligent. As we may know that they have different background and do not make them bored or confused. So it is mush be prepared well. It is also much be valid and reliable. Then it can be use to see the students’ progress and reflection of a teacher in his/her teaching process. Through assessing, it can be used to make evaluation both the teacher and students. The evaluation that is given to students is feedback of students so by giving it students can see their strength and weakness or mistake which can be fixed next time.

There are three domains of classroom assessment. Those are cognitive, affective and psychomotor. The cognitive includes students’ knowledge or comprehension. The affective includes the attitude of students then psychomotor includes organizing skill of students. The way to give assessment, it can be formative and summative assessment. The formative assessment is given during teaching or learning process for example by questioning students about the material which is delivered by the teacher. Then summative assessment is given in the end of teaching or learning process for example is final examination.

Discussing about it makes me more understand what assessment is and how to give assessment to students. Hopefully it can be useful for preparing my future.