Assessment in My Opinion

Assessment is one kind of teaching and learning material. Teaching without assessing is like planting fruit without knowing the taste. So if the taste is bad, it will be bad forever. That is happened because without tasting, we never know the taste then we didn’t know how to make it better so the taste will be same as before. That’s why in my opinion assessment is important in teaching learning process.

It is so regretted because I did not attend the class of this week, so I can’t say a complexes explanation of assessment needed. But actually, based on my experiences in teaching at school experience and private teaching, I have opinion of the effective assessment.

I have done some assessment at class like post test, presentation, round robin games, worksheet. From those kinds of assessment some works some not. As like round robin, it is a fun game with group, when I become a student’s I really enjoy it and get the point of games. But when I becoming a teacher, it is really hard for managing the time of games and also manages the games flow itself. The result at my experience, I can’t measure the students understanding. Assessing students by these games doesn’t work well. Maybe, it also happened because I still learn about teaching and learning process and maybe it is affect of students’ behavior which is not familiar with games.

About the post test, it really works well. I have used it in every teaching. Giving students a simple test at the end of class makes them practice the lesson they get at that day. And the result is can be measure, for instance by evaluating the test we can know at what stage students make error or misunderstanding. It is work and effective. But remember to give a questions based on the lesson that day, do not take a complex one which is never taught before.

Presentation also works well. It can measure the students’ understanding by listen their presentation. At that presentation, the students will use their knowledge and opinion at speaking. And if there is mistaken, it can be cleared by discussion.

I think the point of assessing is our empathy of student. If we know them well, we can design appropriate assessments. So it will help them in study also help us as a teacher for measure them understanding. By that assessment we can reflect and re-design out teaching learning methods for better tomorrow.