Tuesday, January 23, 2024, the UIII Faculty of Education held an End of Semester Gathering in the Thater Faculty A, which aimed to evaluate the learning process and results that had been carried out during one semester. Lecturers, staff, and students of the Faculty of Education attended this evaluation. Prof. Nina Nurmila, Ph.D. as the Dean of the Faculty of Education, UIII opened the activity.

In the opening, She conveyed some advice, especially for M.A. students. in Education when studying Thesis Proposal: 1) Control yourself, not control your supervisor, which means you must manage your time. Contact your supervisor way ahead before your defense time. Give your supervisors at least a week after sending your thesis draft for them to read and give feedback; 2) Communicate via email and within one email only (one thread). Using email makes it easier to track previous communication and documents. 3) Students must consult with their supervisors about chapters 1-3 (especially chapter 3) and their research instrument. Students can only have their instrument after they complete chapters 1 to 3. Usually, it takes at least three times for supervision to have approval of the research instrument. 4) Be humble by not pressuring your supervisor to approve your thesis/instruments.

The activity continued with presenting the results of the quantitative evaluation analysis delivered by Bambang Sumintono Ph.D., the Head of Ph.D. in Education Program. The evaluation results show that students consider the material presented in class easy to understand and that the lecturers behave well towards the students. The analysis results also show that there is a need for improvement in student preparation before the start of learning or discussion sessions in class.

The activity continued with delivering evaluations directly by the students led by Tati D. Wardi, Ph.D., the Head of M.A. in Education Program. She responded to one of the students who complained that the assignment deadlines from each lecturer were sometimes too short. He suggested that students could ask for an extension of assignment submission time or learn from the initial batch how they manage their time to complete assignments on time.