CONTROVERSY OF NATIONAL EXAMINATION

CONTROVERSY OF NATIONAL EXAMINATION

 

Education is one of base on for character building someone.  Education is pillar the power big of nation. So that, education is the important think. You think, what the education is important for you? I thing education is very important for everyone, with education you can get all something.

              System education in Indonesian still  is not good, many are students  which be sacrifice from  it. The Education process in world school nothing again the show free of motivation from unable, but just be for bound creativity of them, so that fail for made the humans is cleaver, creative, skills, hones, and responsive. Bertahun-tahun dunia perndidikan kita hanya terfokus dalam ruang hafalan-hafalan teori dan rumus, tidak ada upaya serius untuk membawa para siswa untuk mampu menerjemahkan berbagai bidang keilmuan yang diperoleh dalam realitas sosial. Pendidikan menjadi tercerabut dari problem riil yang seharusnya mereka jawab dan selesaikan. Model pendidikan demikian oleh Paulo Freire dikritik sebagai banking education, yaitu suatu model pendidikan yang tidak kritis karena hanya diarahkan untuk domestifikasi dan penyesuaian realitas social dengan keadaan penindasan. Dalam kondisi yang demikian itu, bagaimana mungkin dunia perndidikan kita mampu melahirkan manusia-manusia yang cerdas, kritis, dan responsif? Bagaimana mungkin siswa didik kita tergugah kesadarannya untuk belajar mengenali berbagai problem riil yang mencul dalam kehidupan?

              Salah satu penyebab tercerabutnya problem social dunia pendidikan kita adalah kehadiran national examination.  National examination has been administered within the education system of our country since 6 our years ago. it is base on an education Minister Decree No. 114/U/2001, but there were many problems that occurred for years, as if nothing can obscure it. This conditions, really, have become a concern all of us, whether education ministries or non-ministries. Whether the problem is caused by the agents who involved in or the system itself, the short, national examination has raised pros and cons in the society.

              From the pro in point of view, Improving the quality of education can be done, among others, by applying a good examination system at the end of each school year to increase the class and at the end of each educational unit. National exam is a strategy commonly used by developing countries in improving the quality of education because it is cheap and effective way of influencing what teachers teach and what students learned. The use of tests and exams in education, although with the mission and goals are diverse, constantly improving in many countries.  National exam is used as a standard quality of our education and base on National examination it also used to measure how the skill of students. if many students passed the national examination successfully, it means that our education has reached its standard. Examination system that is expected is a system that can help education providers enforce public accountability, provide use feedback to the education system to improve the quality of performance and effectiveness and able to control and encourage the improvement of education quality (at least the academic achievement of learners). The study, conducted by a team from the World Bank provides a lesson that any system that is generated will only be effective if supported by the similarity of perception and the commitment of the parties concerned to implement the system consist. Education examination can be motivated them to study hard more and more and can be increasing your self independence because national examination has a national standard for over all the country.

               In contrast,  if we refer to our curriculum that used in our education system, base on their three aspect in assessment. The first, cognitive, affective and psychomotor. In fact, just one aspect that assessment and that is not relevant.  So should be three aspect in assessment, and national examination not be one of measure the students successfully. But what is happened  with our government ?.Probably we are just said, demo more, but our voices cannot hear by government. We are hope education in Indonesian can be batters future with no used national examination as one of measure graduate.

              So it is fine if that government wants to change the passing standards starting this school year. It's OK to have a willingness to improve the quality of education in Indonesia. But it seems the government should gradually do it. Improve education system used in our country, correct all the educational facilities and infrastructure, as averaged among schools in the central area, (in the village and town), increase the quality of existing teachers, fix the welfare of teachers, eliminate discrimination in public schools private, meet the education budget that he said 20% of it. and still too much more to be repaired.

              There are more important than the national exam controversy, namely how to educate children to have learning and hard work ethic. There are reasonable concerns, Indonesia's children grow up in a social environment and a chaotic school so they do not have a vision of nationhood and has no commitment to humanity and a strong ethos of science.

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       Kahfi Maksum