UNS — Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta held internal monitoring and evaluation (monev) of the Student Creativity Program (PKM) on 7-13 August 2021. The internal evaluation aims to assess program implementation and as a simulation of external monev from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Mendikbud Ristek).
The monev was implemented gradually by scheduling each team into several groups based on the PKM field. Each team has 25 minutes for monev, with 10 minutes of presentation and 15 minutes of questions and answers.
One of monev participants, Maiyang Resmanti from the Indonesian Language and Literature Program, stated that she got various new knowledge after the monev.
“(I) got new knowledge, suggestions from reviewers. We have a more open view from this internal monev. We also got an experience because we could present the result of our study,” Maiyang stated on Wednesday (11/8/2021).
Maiyang and her team, Ufairoh Shoofii Abiyyi, Umu Hana Amini, and Divani Majidullah Syarief PKM title was The Spiritual Representation in the Lopis Raksasa Traditional Ceremony as a Form of Pekalongan City Cultural Tourism Assets Commodification.
Marcellinus Abellard Arioseto from Industrial Engineering Program UNS shared a similar opinion. He stated that in the internal monev he and his team received many suggestions from reviewers.
“After the monev, it is more directed because we got a good suggestion that sheds light on our direction and next steps. Moreover, we are producing food packaging. Thus, we planned to conduct a food grade test using the details and suggestions provided by the reviewers during the monev,” the Industrial Engineering student stated.
Marcellinus Abellard Arioseto is a member of the PKM team led by Mohamad Rafdinal Setyoko (Industrial Engineering/2019), with Deas Felice Muhammad (Industrial Engineering /2019), Ainun Rahmansyah Gaffar (Industrial Engineering /2019), and Bayu Puji Ubaidillah (Craft Arts (Textile Design) FSRD/2018) as other members.
The internal monev held by UNS aims to evaluate the PKM program and a means of simulation before the monev from the ministry. The program is expected to improve student’s PKM program. Humas UNS
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