Authentic Assessment On Teaching Writing  

Oleh:

Surya, Satyawati

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 1, page 775-785.
Topik: Test; Assessment; and Evaluation; Authentic Assessment; and Writing Assessment
Fulltext: hal 775.pdf (16.58MB)

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In this article, the writer concerns on using authentic assessment to measure students’ English writing competence since writing course to be the subject of her teaching at the University of Mulawarman. Without any purposes, she usually applies this assessment for measuring her students’ writing ability and achievement. Then she realizes that the use of this assessment is a demand of teaching today. Actually, the writer intends to share her experience on using authentic assessment by describing on what and how to apply the assessment. It will provide valuable contribution for teachers and lecturers on how to link between teaching instruction and authentic assessment. It also assists the students to show their best performance and use the opportunity to expose their competence during the activities in the classroom since the performance is measured on the process of learning. In order to focus her concern in this study, the writer formulates her problems of the study as the following: 1) what kinds of authentic assessment are used to teach Writing II course for the second semester students of English Department of Mulawarman University in academic year 2014/2015? And 2) how to utilize the authentic assessment to measure students’ writing English competence of the second semester students of English Department of Mulawarman University in academic year 2014/2015? Authentic assessment presented here includes performance assessment, portfolios, and student self-assessment. The writer also presents two important components in the authentic assessment of writing, that is, the nature of the task and the scoring criteria. This study used descriptive research design which took place in English Department of Mulawarman University. The subjects are the second semester students of English Department.

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