ASSESSMENT CONTINUED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD) THROUGH MOBILE PHONE IN TEACHER WORKING GROUP; AGE MATTER

The purpose of this research is to develop guides by the adoption process of mobile phone in teacher working group or “Kelompok Kerja Guru” (KKG) to assess continued professional development (CPD) context with surface, deep and implicit structures. The members of KKGs have disparities age between junior teacher, middle and senior teacher where they have advantages and drawbacks. A KKG provides workshops, training and discussions that are held each month. To enable and foster these activities across diverse communities, across urban, suburban and rural settings where they have intentions to help teachers improve their competences, KKGs use mobile phone platform (for example; WhatsApp, BBM, Line, Facebook, Twitter) to communicate and share ideas between group members. This study still ongoing through working closely with members (young and old) of KKGs to explore the benefits and drawbacks of a mobile learning approach to assess continued professional development context with surface, deep and implicit structures. The methodology of this study uses qualitative research with a case study based on the government project namely Program Peningkatan Kompetensi Pembelajaran (PKP) Berbasis Zonasi (initial in English; Zoning based Learning Competency Improvement Program) to extend through mobile phones in teacher working groups to complete High order thinking skill (HOTS). The project will take several weeks by observation on the mobile phone, semi-interview to find the aim of this study.