The Implementation of English Portfolio Assessment at the First Grade of SMP Negeri I Malang in the Academic Year 2006/2007
| Main Author: | Maratus Solikah; 2007 |
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| Format: | PeerReviewed |
| Bahasa: | ind |
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, 2009
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| Online Access: |
http://karya-ilmiah.um.ac.id/index.php/sastra-inggris/article/view/3272 http://karya-ilmiah.um.ac.id/index.php/sastra-inggris/article/download/3272/2472 |
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- ABSTRACTSolikah, Maratus. 2007. The Implementation of English Portfolio Assessment at the First Gradeof SMP Negeri I Malang in the Academic Year 2006/2007. Thesis, Department ofEnglish, Faculty of Letters, State University of Malang. Advisors: (I) Dr. JohannesAnanto Prayogo, M. Pd., M. Ed, (II) Dra. Nunung Suryati, M. Ed.Key words: implementation, portfolio assessment, qualitativeAssessment is one of the major components in teaching and learning process. As ameasurement of students' performance, an assessment method must examine students' collectiveabilities. In the last few years, the method of assessment in the world-wide has changed fromtraditional to alternative assessment. Traditional assessment is considered not to be able to offermuch wash-back and authenticity. It tends to show only one-shot performances that are timed. Inother words, traditional assessment cannot authentically measure students' real ability andperformance (Brown, 2004).Portfolio as one of the authentic assessments is based on a systematic assessmentprocedure. It provides accurate information about students' capability in many domains oflearning. Moreover, it also provides teachers with wealth of information upon which to baseinstructional decisions and from which to evaluate students' progress (Gomez, Gru, Block, inSuparto, 1994). However, it is not easy to find a model of a good portfolio that can reallymeasure students' progress.This study attempts to describe the implementation of portfolio assessment which hasbeen implemented at SMP Negeri I Malang. Furthermore, it also attempts to reveal the students'and teacher's opinions about the implementation of portfolio assessment in the school.The sources of the data of this study are a teacher and students in the VII A class of SMPNegeri I Malang. Since this study is intended to describe the real condition of the implementationof portfolio assessment at SMP Negeri I Malang, the research design employed is a qualitativeresearch. The instruments applied in this research are questionnaires, field-notes, and interviews.The data obtained from the instruments were then analyzed descriptively.The findings show that portfolio assessment implemented at SMP Negeri I Malang is agood model of portfolio assessment. From the process during the implementation of portfolioassessment, the students' progresses were well monitored, both by the teacher and by thestudents. The results of the questionnaires show that the teacher and the students had positiveopinions toward the implementation of portfolio assessment. It could really assist the teacher inmonitoring students' progress. 88.6% of the students answered that the implementation ofportfolio assessment made them motivated in learning English and be more creative. In addition,90 % of the students answered that with the implementation of portfolio assessment, theybecame more attentive in doing their assignments.Therefore, it is suggested that teacher should give more focus in the reflection as thestudents' self-assessment to make the portfolio assessment more meaningful.