The basic concept of Learning Evaluation

One of the competencies that must be dikuasi by the teachers is the evaluation of learning. This competence in line with the duties and responsibilities of a teacher in learning, i.e. evaluate a study including performing the assessment process and the results of the study. The competence in line with the assessment instrument is the ability of teachers, the charge indicators will one is doing the evaluation of learning. And many more models that describe the basic competence that should be controlled by the teacher. This indicates that on all models of competence basic teacher always describe and menyaratkan the existence of ability of teachers in evaluating learning, because the absolute basic ability should be possessed by any teachers or prospective teachers. Therefore, reasonable and logical if all student education courses, such as PGTK and PGSD, other education programs.

Understanding Evaluation
Not wrong anymore, maybe we never or even often read books about evaluation which describes ari a few terms that are almost the same but berbed, such as evaluation, assessment, measurement and test.
Daalam learning systems (learning as a system), evaluation is one of the essential components and stages that should be taken by the teacher to find out the liveliness of an instruction. And the results obtained from the evaluation can be used as an inverse (Feed Back) for teachers in improving and refining the program and learning activities. We often hear in schools that teachers often give repeat daily, final exams of the semester, the test blocks, bills, written tests, oral tests, the test Act, and others.

More about the term evaluation, according to carl h. Witherington (1952). "an evaluation is a declaration that someting goes has or does not have value."  While according to Guba and Lincoln (1985), that the evaluation as "a process for self-describing an evaluand and judging it's merit and worth". So, evaluation is a process to describe learners and menimbangnya in terms of value and meaning. This confirms that an evaluation of the definitions relating to values and meanings. Process and outcome evaluation are strongly influenced by various observations, background and practical experience evaluator itself.

From some formula of this evaluation, it can be concluded that in fact the evaluation is a systematic and sustainable process to determine the quality (value and meaning) of something, based on certain criteria and considerations in the framework of decision making. Based on the above understanding, there are a few things that need to be explained more anjut, namely:

1. Evaluation is a process rather than an outcome (productive). The results obtained from the evaluation activities is the quality of something, fine that concerns about the value or meaning, while activity to arrive at the giving of value and meaning it is evaluation. Discuss about the evaluation means studying how the process of granting a consideration about the quality of something. The quality of the picture in question is a logical consequence of the process of evaluation is done. The process is of course done in a systematic and sustainable manner, in accordance with the proposed procedures and principles as well as continuously.
2. The purpose of the evaluation is to determine the quality of something, especially with regard to the value and meaning. S Hamid Hasan (1988) explicitly distinguish between the two terms are as follows: the giving of value is performed when an evaluator gives the reasoning about evaluan without connecting it with something that is from outside.  As for the meaning, related to the position and role of evaluan in a certain context. And of course a comprehensive evaluation activity is covering both the process of granting decisions about the value and meaning of decisions about the process, but this does not mean that an activity evaluation should always include both.

Again, the assessment and evaluation that actually has the equation da difference. The equation is either has sense meniai or determine the value of something. In addition, the tools used for collecting the data is also the same, whereas the difference is in the scope and implementation. While the measurement only is one step that may be used in the evaluation of the activities.

Position Evaluation in a Learning
Sebagaiman has expressed before, that learning as a system that has a variety of interacting components, berinterelasi and berinterdependensi. One of the momponen learning is evaluation. So also in the procedure of learning, one of the steps that must be taken is a teacher evaluation. Thus, the views of a wide range of learning contexts, evaluation has a very important position and strategic because evaluation is a part and parcel of the learning itself.