Assessment as Learning: Honesty Issue
Posted on: January 16, 2011
As an English prospective teacher that study in a university which is based on core values, I still have some concerns about assessment as learning. The major concern is about honesty. How can assessment as learning applied effectively in our education while honesty is still a major issue in our education? As we know, in our education system, most of schools and teachers are still indoctrinate “Good mark is everything, and then I’ll do everything to get a good mark” since we’re in the primary school. If we see those saying and we reflect it to assessment as learning which most of the activities are reflection, self-assessment and other activities that involve honesty as a major concern, it obviously indicate that we need more effort to apply assessment as learning in our education. If we talk about teenage or adult it seem that there’s still any chance to be effective (really?). However, how if we talk about children?
Our education system is planning to applied “Moral Value Education” starting this year for every grades. This system will create an education which is not only focus on intelligence but more focus on personality that is more important in a real life. Moreover, it also changes the orientation of current education which is focus on result into an education which is focus on progress. I think this system will help us in applying assessment as learning as early as possible, since honesty is one of the elements in the moral value education system.
I believe it’s not as easy as eating a cake. Everything needs process, big motivation to keep the consistency. Let’s support the moral value education system and assessment as learning to be applied in our education system start from early education!
CAUTION: our support will determine the future of our nation.
6 Responses to "Assessment as Learning: Honesty Issue"
January 16, 2011 at 8:18 pm
To erase that opinion, i think you have to build your own school where is better mark is not an indicator of success!(and writing reflection is not the only way to asses students ehehe.. just kidding)
that’s a long term one…
and the easiest way is just set on your mind that mark is just a mark… while your future more on your personality, yeah even mark also determine our future but it’s just the smallest part… 🙂
January 16, 2011 at 8:26 pm
i like your issue
sometime we didnt realize that the honesty is part of education
January 16, 2011 at 8:37 pm
..”is not only focus on intelligence but more focus on personality that is more important in a real life..”. really like that sentence Nice, what you have said before, to apply it, it needs long process. Hopefully we can make that brighter changing in our education. However, based on my experience, and I think until now that issue still happen in our surrounding. do you have any idea what we can contribute to minimize that issue? (now we as prospective teachers) Thanks ya Nice..:-)
January 17, 2011 at 12:24 am
Good post , nice…
actually I do agree with your statement about honesty issue in education.. actually moral value is the best way, because we know that we cannot assess our students based on their intelligence,,
but how can we make government and other teacher believe to ur statement about moral value in education?
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January 16, 2011 at 7:56 pm
Of course i will support the moral value education system and assessment as learning to be applied in our education system. However, i think it is very hard for me to erase the thinking of ‘the better mark you get, the better future you will have.’ Do you have any suggestion to erase that opinion from my mind?