Process or Result?

Posted by: Endang Sriwahyuni on: January 16, 2011

• In: WEEK 4 DISCUSSION
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After joining PETA course which discussed about assessment, I have concept that assessment is a tool to gauge the development of students in learning and to know whether or not the instruction is effective.  The word “assessment” comes from Latin language “assidere” means “to sit beside”. It is an indicator that in assessing students, the teacher has to guide them in various ways to make students understand. That is the process of learning and it is because learning itself is a process. Then, I agree about the concept of assessment as learning because the assessment here really helps students to learn. With other words, the assessment is not being something frighten for students. In assessment as learning, the teacher helps students in learning with assessment along the process of learning. I remember something then. I often hear the sentences “The process is more important than the result”. In learning, many people think so.  Many people protest to government like the final examination that only done with paper and pencil test is not good because it does not consider the process. So, it is not fear to judge students fail or not just based on the final examination without considering the process of them in learning. But, my question is “Is process more important than result?”

The assessment as learning allows students to improve understanding with teacher guidance. I think it is appropriate because the main purpose of learning is being successes to understand. When student is good in process of learning, then is not good in production of result, isn’t it fair thing to judge that student is fail? I think the process, including assessment during it, have to make students be able to be successes in the result. So, there is no which one is more important between process and result.