The Effectiveness of Rubric to Improve Students’ Confidence in Writing  

Oleh:

EWK, E. Ngestirosa.

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 495-500.
Topik: assessment; business letter; rubric; writing
Fulltext: hal 495.pdf (15.04MB)

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This paper aims to inform the effectiveness of rubric in writing class. The paper investigated the class of writing which consists of 83 students. The problems found in the class were the bigger number of students and a number of business letter productions that should be checked by the lecturer. The class developed the ability of students in making business letter. The rubric was used to let the students to develop their understanding in kinds of business letter. This rubric provided checklist as the guided information about parts of business letter. Peer and self assessments were applied to let the students assess writing production. The students gathered the information about good business letter by developing their understanding to assess their friends and themselves. Data were gathered from the production of writing and the questionnaire given to the students during teaching learning process. During class, the students were given questionnaire to gather their opinion about the use of rubric, their difficulty in scoring or assessing and their difficulty in assessing themselves. Reflective writing by rubric finally created bigger participation, enthusiasm and confidence in developing students’ ability in writing. The rubric also created the effectiveness of assessing the students in bigger class of writing for the lecturer.

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