Kampus Pemimpin Merdeka roll out Merdeka Islamic Boarding School Festival on Monday (29/01) regularly daring. Seven teachers Nurul Chotib Al Qodiri Jember Islamic Boarding School Foundation share good practices at the event.
One of them exists Farij Qusayyi who shared his experience of using performance-based assessment when teaching mathematics. He is a math teacher at the junior high school level.
As the name implies, Performance -based assessment allows students to show competency based on their performance. Thus, The teacher will more easily judge the extent to which students understand a concept.
Farij decided to use this assessment so that he could not only assess student learning outcomes but also the process. Therefore, This assessment also avoids the possibility of students cheating on their friend's work.
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“When I first heard about performance-based assessment, There are immediately many questions arise. The difficulty is that there are still a few concrete examples of applications on the internet. Therefore, I am currently sharing here, so that my practice can be one of the references. Mr/Mrs the teacher does not need difficulties like me before in the beginning,“Kata Farij.
Number Material Performance-Based Assessment
Farij first tried performance-based assessment for the class 8 In the number of number patterns. He invited students to create booklet number pattern. The booklet must at least have a title, Illustration of number patterns, NUMBER DESCRIPTION, and concept explanation.
"To carry out visualization, Students are free to use the materials around them. Some use used cardboard, Wrap the liquid soap, foliage, sapu people, straw, and many others,”Explained Farij.
Before the student starts making a booklet, Farij explained his assessment criteria, namely creativity, illustration quality, draft, and presentation. After making a booklet and making a presentation, Students do reflection.
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“Students tell stories, the most challenging is his presentation because of shame. Here I know what is lacking from students and how I help in the future so that the competence continues to rise,“Kata Farij.
Students also express their pleasure in learning mathematics that is not monotonous. When usually they just do questions, with performance -based assessments they undergo other activities such as cutting and sticking.
"They are happy because they are challenged to be creative. Not just thinking about the numbers. Mathematics is not scary for students. For me, I came to know how far they understood the concept of number patterns,"Close Farij. (Yosi)
