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Rosseni Din, Nabilah Othman, Mohd Khalid Mohamad Nasir, Umi Azmah Nasran, Norlaila Che Murat, Mohammed Huzaimi Alias FRGS/1/2013/SS109/UKM/02/5 & GUP-2016-039 REFLECTION IN A BLOG: SCAFFOLDING TO FORMATIVE AND SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT Highlights Description of your assessment method / design / process Advantages of Assessment Method Challenges Importance towards Education How it applicable to other academic disciplines Reflections are thoughts or opinions that come to you while you are reflecting. In Educational Technology course students do weekly reflection as a scaffolding process on a blog as an alternative assessment method. At the same time the blog in which the reflections are done becomes an e- portfolio for the student. Dewey defined reflective thought as ‘active, persistent, and careful consideration of any belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the grounds that support it and the further conclusions to which it tends’ (Dewey 1933: 118). He set out five phases of reflection that are (i) suggestions, in which the mind leaps forward to a possible solution, (ii) an intellectualization of the difficulty directly experienced into a problem to be solved, (iii) the use of one suggestion after another as a leading idea to initiate and guide observation and other operations in collection of factual material (iv) the mental elaboration of the idea and (v) testing the hypothesis by overt, or imaginative action. (See Dewey 1933: 199-209). These activities represent scaffolding processes and platforms that are important to education but too time comsuming in the old days to manage but now with the web 2.0 learning and scaffolding is manageable within the allocated time for optimum learning. The assessment process is very demanding and strenuous even with the help of technology on the part of the coordinator. The list of student blog where the reflections were written are example for future students can use as benchmark and for replication work. Every week student’s will complete a task or an incomplete task from the previous week. The accomplishment of a task is spelled out by uploading the finish product onto the “Peer Content” area and reflecting on the process in their individual blogs. Incomplete task can be uploaded in the Facebook Group for a more private consultation within the group and facilitators only. Facilitators and peers can comment on learners’ progress within the MOOC, Facebook , Youtube or the WordPress blogging platform for reflections.
