Assessment and It's Domains

Finally, I get the idea why assessment has to be variety and including many aspects. Yeah, it caused of the domain itself. Assessing students completely need more criteria rather than just assess by paper and pencil style. For instance, actually all students are unique, that is why as a teacher we should appreciate it, but at the teaching and learning process, teacher often forgot their uniqueness by assess by limited aspects of assessment. It is happened because teacher didn’t understand clearly about the idea of assessment.

By PETA course, I got full understandings of assessment by any aspects. Assessment has three domains: cognitive, affective, and psycho motor. Today’s education in Indonesia focus on assessing by pencil and paper test which is belongs to cognitive domains. The government has decided the pencil and paper test as orientation of assessment, whereas this type of assessing just measures the students cognitive. In my opinion, assessing by this domain only is not really complete assessment because i think assessing students who unique need to use the three domains assessment for assessing. By completing all three domains of assessment, teacher can approach the students knowledge, then implementing activities which include all domains, and at the end of process teacher can measure the students understanding by many factor that enrich the students.

By implementing the complete domains, we can see the students as true individual. I as a teacher candidate can said like that because I think when we really use the three domains we can measure the students by their attitude, thinking skills, emotion, feeling, product. That is can be seen from the daily activities from the students, and not only can measure the students clearly and easily, but also can approach the students to the material given.