Students’ Perspectives: How do They want to be Assessed?

Abstract

How students are assessed is an essential part of teaching and learning processes involving students, educators, and policy makers. Mostly, in Indonesia the policy makers and the educators decide how the students will be assessed. The reason lead an aim of this study, that was, to deliver the students’perspectives, how they want to be assessed. The participant of the descriptive research was first year students of Department of Science, Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Indonesia. The participants were classified into three groups, namely students with (1) higher, (2) middle, and (3) lower performance. The researchers interviewed the participants with semi-structured technique of interview to collect their perspectives. The data analysis involved transcription of interview results and description. The findings indicated that there were two aspects to be the students’ considerations when they were assessed, involving: (1) assessment form and (2) fairness. The students’ perspectives on their assessments are interested to be considered by the educators at the first meeting of teaching and learning activities (classes)..

Keywords

• assessment
• students’ perspectives
• assessment form
• fairness