39 observation sheets give nothing to the students. That’s because we can feel our
strength or weaknesses without observation from another.” respondent 68. The student argued that the self-evaluation was much better than the use of
observation sheet. It was clearly seen that based on the responses above there were two
reasons why the students thought that the use of observation sheet was not effective. The first reason was that the student feedback from lecturer and self-
evaluation were better than the use of observation sheet while the second reason was that the students felt confused on the scoring procedure.
According to all students’ responses on the open and close-ended questions discussed above, it was certain that the students perceived the use of
observation sheets in positive and negative way. Therefore, the researcher tried to dig out more information and to verify the answer by analyzing interview results.
2. The Description of the Students’ Perception Based on Interview
The interview was conducted to verify the students’ answer on the questionnaires. There were four interviewees chosen. The interviewees who were
chosen were the students who had the most interesting answer on their questionnaires. Two interviewees were the students who had positive perception
on their questionnaires and other two interviewees were the students who had negative perception on their questionnaires.
All of the interviewees admitted that they have been experienced on using the observation sheet both as observer and as student teacher. As student teacher,
40 three of the interviewees said that the use of observation sheets was helpful to
assess their teaching performance. The feedback they obtained from the observation sheets helped them to improve their teaching skills in the next
teaching performance and to motivate them to teach better. On the contrary, there was one interviewee who was not motivated to teach better because he felt
confused on the feedback in the form of number. Nevertheless, as observer, three of them felt discomfort in filling the
observation sheet. Two of them commented on the form of observation sheet while the other students commented on the closeness feeling with the teacher
observed, which influenced the way she gave mark. One of the students felt that the form of observation sheet needed more space to write comments. He said,
It is boring. In my opinion, it would be better to provide space such as bigger column to write something comments not only provide number
1-5 as grading point because it can not accommodate what I the observer what to convey. Even though there are some essay questions
provided, it is not a guarantee. Sometimes I want to write in detail while the comment column beside the criteria was so little interviewee 3.
The other students complained about the evaluated categories that were too general. She was confused about what standard competences that she should
have to deserve certain score in each category. In addition, all of the interviewees agreed that the use of observation sheet needed to be used although they have got
feedback from their lecturer and recorded video.
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3. Discussion
