Influencing
motivation through assessment. In your
opinion, is it a good idea?
Actually
when I heard about this issue, I had wondered to myself. Is it correct? How to
do so? I was really curious at the moment and immediately I moved to have a
great passion to find out more information about that. It’s important for us as
teachers’ candidate and I think this issue will help teachers’ candidate
especially me to know more about what activities that can be used to influence
students’ motivation through assessment.
By
this 2 stray 2 stay activity that held on the last Tuesday, I have got a lot of
information about how to create assessment that can influence students’
motivation especially in learning and getting as much as possible achievement
in class? Before studying this material, I just knew that the purpose of
assessment itself is only means that in chronological assist teachers in
monitoring students’ performance. Teachers uncover concept that had been
achieved by students and assess student progress in this regard about the
development process of how a concept is acquired. But after I heard about my
friends’ explanation about this issue, I just realized that it’s really crucial
thing. In creating a good assessment, teachers need to know that the assessment
must be meaningful, involve students’ improvement, and expose students’ optimism
and confidence. As known that the
purpose of this issue is encouraging us as teacher candidates to see that not
only improve students’ motivations that include the extrinsic motivation but
also their ego and task involvement.
As
far as I’ve done observation well in both SD Menteng atas and SMA 12 Jakarta
when doing school experience program, mostly their motivation to learn especially
in learning mathematics were still low. Only a few students that had a
motivation to learn mathematics based on their own volition. I remembered when
I had a chance to teach them, I tried to assess them with various ways to
maximize their performance. Not only using post test or pre test, I assessed
them when they still discussed a topic, presented their work until found some
solutions in the game that I gave to them. There were many differences that I
could see. I could see the progress, most students motivate to learn more
deeply in mathematics and they enjoyed with activities that I’ve created. And
the most important thing is I had success to improve their skill in problem
solving, analyzing and evaluating through assessment.
In this reflective way, I got the conclusion that assessment is the means to create effective learning and students' motivation to learn
is the tendency of students to find academic activities
meaningful and worthwhile. And by the time they receive the learning activity
that is where the motivation to learn appears. Motivation in learning is effective if it can provide
mental forging on
learning, Students are people
who have feelings and who don't want to feel cornered. They want to learn but
they also want to feel as if they have some control over themselves. It is our
tasks as teachers to find assessment model that not
only motivates each student to learn but also motivates them to misbehave. If
we can meet them at that point and take away that motivation, we can go a long
way towards a more effective classroom and learning experience.
Himmatul ‘Aliyah
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