Assessing by doing: A Balinese culture based assessment

Abstract

An integrated assessment model for assesing cognitive, affective, and psychomotor simultaniously has been developed for formative assessment in computer class. The assessment model was adopted from a Balinese culture based assessment. Many of the skills in Bali are learned through a collaborative process between skilled workers and young workers who help them. Through observations and in-depth interviews with some community figures it was found that skilled workers taught skills to young workers while they are working together. If the process runs normally, then in the future, young workers will become skilled workers. During the collaboration process, skilled workers evaluate the learning progress of young workers. Evaluation is done through a process similar to analogy. The skilled worker gives an example of performance, then the young worker is asked to imitate the example. Young workers will attempt to implement such performance examples, while expert workers do assessments while working. Assessment is done in an integrated manner including cognitive, affective, and psychomotor components. The assessment model has been tried to be adopted for formative assessment in computer class and developed in the form of performance assessment. Students are given problems to be resolved and similar problems with it's solutions are attached. The student solve the problem by doing analogy with the problem that has been solved. The assessment rubric includes the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor components. Gradually the similarity of the problem is reduced, so that the students are finally able to solve new problems without any examples.