opinion part 2

The opinion about paper Standards for Teacher competence in Educational Assessment of Students

1.      Teachers Should be skilled in choosing assessment methods appropriate for instructional decision.

According to the text, I truly agree with this perspective. Teachers are models for their students, so they have to be skilled in any field of teaching –learning process such as: teachers should be skilled in choosing assessment methods appropriate for instructional decisions. Assessment methods also one of the important part of teaching-learning process, the teacher should be familiar with the information of the approaches that they are going to take, because if they do not understand, they will not be able to transfer the knowledge to the students fluently. When teachers are skilled in choosing assessment methods they will have the conceptual and application skill as their orientation, so it makes teachers easier to teach the students by following the concept, they will also be able to use the concept of error assessment and they will understand how valid assessment data can support instructional activities, so they can provide support, feedback for students. As we know, by providing support and feedback students will be more motivated in learning,because if their assignments are wrong,so they will know where the errors are taken place and they can revise their works for better changes in instructional decisions. Teachers  understand how valid and invalid the instructional, therefore,  they will be able to use and evaluate assessment related to culture, social,economics and background of language, so they will be aware of different approaches that may  influence quite differently on their teaching.

I hope Indonesian teachers should also be skilled in choosing assessment methods appropriate for instructional decisions, so they can use the best methods that fit both instructional and students.