Developing Authentic Assessment in ESP for Engineering Students  

Oleh:

Cahyaningati, Desi Tri

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 2, page 375-383.
Topik: ESP; Vocational Education; Learning Outcomes; authenticassessment
Fulltext: hal 375.pdf (15.04MB)

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As a vocational institution, Politeknik Perkapalan Negeri Surabaya (PPNS) should consider to suit a specific need of profession in teaching English. The students should master certain skills in English that meet their background of study as engineer. Thus the ESP approach provides opportunities to the students to acquire their specific purposes. One of the factors relating with the standard quality of vocational education is the effectivity of teaching learning process covering the assessment of students learning outcomes. The learning outcomes is an indicator about the vocational education as the source of work market. Thus the learning outcomes should be measured not only the students’ skills but also their cognitif, attitude and characters during the learning process at school. However, in reality English teachers in PPNS are still using the traditional written assessment forms that only focus on students’ knowledge about English. This condition becomesafactor ofthe low level ofrelevance ofvocational education graduation competence withthe demands ofemployment. Thus the witer belives that the solutiontoovercome the problem ofthe relevance ofvocational educationonlearning outcomesaspectisthe development ofauthenticassessment.Inthis paper, the writerwilldiscuss the importance ofauthentic assessment(Authentic Assessment) to measurePPNS students learning outcomesin ESP. Moreover it will also discuss the suitable authentic test in ESP for PPNS students.

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