DEVELOPING ESP READING ASSESSMENT FOR NURSING VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Daftar Isi:
- The purpose of this study was to develop a set of valid, practical and potentially effective reading assessment for nursing vocational high school students. The subjects involved in the study consisted of 56 students. Using Akker’s developmental research method, the procedure consisted of (1) instructional analysis, students’ needs analysis, and functional reading level analysis, (2) design, (3) evaluation and revision. These were done to adjust the development of reading assessment with the needs of students, to find out the relevant and readable texts which are in line with the Indonesia National Working Standard for sub sector Health Service in Nursing field, the English curriculum, and the Nursing curriculum for vocational high school. The texts were adapted from several textbooks for nursing which were based on the basic nursing-assistantexpertise competency. Meanwhile, for the evaluation and revision, several activities were done following Tesmer’s evaluation model, such as (1) selfevaluation, (2) experts review on four different aspects covering content, instructional design, language, and media for its validity, (3) three students in oneto- one and nine students in small group evaluation, and (4) field test evaluation (44 students) for its potential effect to measure students’ reading achievement in English for Specific Purposes. The results of the study show that the average score of each evaluation is as follows: the experts review = 3.66 (very high validity); one-to-one evaluation = 3.03 (high practicality); small group evaluation = 3.15 (also high practicality), and the average score of field test = 67.18 in which 77% of the subjects achieved the minimum score criterion of 55. Finally, its very strong significant correlation (r = .821; p < .000) with TOEIC given to the same students indicates that the developed reading assessment can be used to any other groups of students majoring in nursing as one of the alternative assessment devices in detecting the students’ reading proficiency.