Traditionally, teaching practicum has always been done face-to-face where supervisor goes to supervisee’s school to do in-class observation. Usually, in-class observations are done two (2) or three (3) times.
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A Revolutionized Model for Teaching Practicum and Assessment: E-PRASMO
Noor Saazai Mat Saad (Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Malaysia), Ramiaida Darmi (Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Malaysia), Suraini Mohd Ali (Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Malaysia), Nurkhamimi Zainuddin (Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Malaysia), Normazla Ahmad Mahir (Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Malaysia), Norhaili Massari (Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Malaysia), Norhana Abdullah (Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Malaysia), Fariza Puteh-Behak (Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Malaysia), Haliza Harun (Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Malaysia), Zarina Ashikin Zakaria (Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Malaysia), and Mohd Muzhafar Idrus (Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Malaysia)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5936-8.ch011
Abstract
Teaching practicum is an integral feature of any education-based program. Teaching competency, expertise, and quality are developed and refined during the practicum, as a form to assess these teachers to-be. Traditionally, it is conducted with the supervisors visiting the supervisees' schools for observations of the teaching and learning activities in class. Tapping on the advent of technology, researchers from USIM have innovated this practice through an online practicum supervision tool called electronic practicum assessment model (e-PRASMO). After undergoing two rounds of research and improvisation, e-PRASMO embodies the strengths of its innovation and practicality: cost effectiveness, stress-free environment, flexibility, technological enhancement, reflexivity, and accessibility. It also espouses the framework of the 3 P's model by Biggs, showing the amalgamation of both the online and traditional teaching practicum activities. With more uniqueness offered by e-PRASMO, it becomes a revolutionized innovation for practicum method and assessment aligned with the current era.