Performance Assessment and Educational Organization

Beginning of the week we had a chance to go over the Assessment and Evaluation, which we had the same topic with Dr. Merja and Dr. Katri, but this time it was from different angle, eventhough, there was a lot of similarity, as the evaluation is the key to enhance the quality of learning methodology. Nevertheless, we discussed the assessment subject in a broad way which related to many elements as follows:

As we see, this is the base or the foundation of the Assessment that rely on what we have to take on consideration when it comes to Performance Assessment. Then, we talked about the roles and responsibility of the Teachers towards the Students. The Teacher suppose to be advance and experts when it comes to help the students to formulate better questions and encourage them to reformulate questions at higher levels, also to encourage them to produce their own theories to account for facts and to criticize one another's theories by confronting them with facts, although Teachers pay close attention to how each students is doing day by day the focus is the progress toward collective goals of understanding. In other word, the Teacher should push, encourage the Students to expand themselves to think out of the box, to challenge them to be Independent learner and self assessment.

Then, we went through five dimensions of Autonomy

1. Self-Evaluative Deminsion which means the Individual rates the quality of his or her own work.

2. Extensional-Dimension is related to self evaluation and dependance on the clarity of once own manner of existing.

3. Context-critical means the Teacher is able to criticaly evaluate the practices at the workplace based on the value of the person.

4. Ethical Dimension refers to the ability of acting ethically and evaluating situation and make decision which improve student's learning.

5. Authentic Communal shared or participation in communities, in which the relationship with other people are dialogue.

In fact, the Basic idea of Dimensions Autonomy is to develop the skill, to evaluate ourselves also the capacity to see our own identity to develop consciousness of values and awareness about the context of surrounding life. As you see the Assessment performance topic is really very useful and interesting for me from the concepts and ideas that the teacher has responsibility not just only teaching but from ethical and moral point of view. These, in my opinion are very important and significant factors, also the teachers are suppose to be capable to evaluate themselves, to be advance, experts in their profession and well developed  as well as updated their knowledge, skills and techniques all the time through the Learning and Teaching Process. Finally, I really like the Philosophy of this topic.