OF STUDENTS GRADE X SMAN 1 SOUTH GALESONG
Andi Paida
Language and Literature Education Program of Tarbiyah and Science Faculty Muhammadiyah University of Makassar
Abstract
A research has been held to obtain the information of how is the application of authentic assessment in essay writing skill learning process of students grade X SMAN 1 South Galesong. The method of this research is descriptive method. The aim of this research is to obtain data of students’ writing skill in senior high school, especially in the school that had been choosed by researcher as the location of this research. The result of this research shows that the application of authentic assessment in essay writing skill learning process in SMAN 1 South Galesong was not good enough. Students’ score accievment was 50% or 16 students got 6.5 or more and another 50% or 16 students got less than 6.5. there was no students who obtained the highest score or 10 and the lowest score was 3.75.
Keywords: Authentic Assessment, Essay Writing Skill, Learning Process
Introduction
Education problem of Indonesia is the low quality in each education steps and institude. Those problems were influenced by some factors, those are (1) low quality of learning process; (2) education result does not equipped by institutional and independent examination and research system so that education quality could not be monitored objectively and regularly; (3) Comparative test of education quality among region, time, and countries; and (4) it could not be done regularly so that education result could not function as feedbacks to complete education process.
One of the solution to fix the education condition in Indonesia is curriculum renewal from 2004 curriculum into competence based curriculum (KBK). This KBK has been tested for about two years in education institution. Assessment is a data collecting process that could give a description of students development. Students’ development description have to known by the teacher to make sure that those students have experienced the learning process approppriately. If the data shows that the students get a problem in learning, teacher should take a right action to solve the problem by reading the description, that is why assessment is not only an end semester activity, for instance students’ accievement evaluation, but it has to be held concurrently and integrated with learning process.
Writing skill learning tend to focus on students’ theory mastery, not on students’
writing skill itself. So that, teacher domination in learning process is still quite high while students tend to be the receiver. By aware of all the weakness in test result, it has been developed an integrated and sustainable assessment system and comprehensive in observing all aspects of students’ development. In this case, applying authentic assessment which assesses students’ knowledge as well as students’ skills. Assessment is not only from the teacher but also from their peers or others.
Authentic assessment is a prime assessment, it fullfills the validity tested of aresearch, acomodating students’ variety, fulfilling competence accievement standards, and learning process and learning accievement oriented for all aspects (cognitive, pshycomotoric, and
Enriching Quality and Providing Affordable Education through New Academia | 36 affective) (Nurhadi : 2003), sampai pada aspek afektif (Nurhadi : 2003). In the other hand, authentic assessment is covering all assessment method which lets the students to demonstrate their skill to fix their task and solvetheir problem. So that, it is expected to build students motivation and to help them enjoying the learning process.
The researcher choose SMAN 1 South Galesong as the location of the research after doing an observation in this school and aware that the students are focus on theory mastering not to their writing skills. Moreover, students’ accievement is only measured in the end of semester test, not in the learning process to measure their skills.
Research Method Type of the research
The method of this research is descriptive method. This instruments is on students grade X SMAN 1 South Galesong. The aim of this research is to obtain data of students’ writing skill in senior high school, especially in the school that had been choosed by researcher as the location of this research
Population and Sample
Population of this research is all students grade X SMAN 1 South Galesong. Sample of this research is 32 number of students.
Table 1. Research sample
Grade X Male Sex Female Total
Total 12 20 32
Reference: Students grade X SMAN 1 South Galesong Data Analyze Technique
1. Making a raw score list
2. Making a frequency distribution table of raw score
The data was obtained from two observers and then adjointed to calculate its frequency and scores.
3. Calculating Ideal Mean
According to Nurgiyantoro (1995:369) this following formula is used to calculate the ideal mean.
Xi = 60% of ideal score Where:
Xi = Ideal mean
4. Distribution measuring
In this step, researcher calculating the deviation as a measyrment in data distribution. Nurgiantoro (1987:369) stated that S1= ¼ Xi. So that, it could be known that to find the standard deviation as the measurement of data distribution we could use this following formula:
Si = 1/4x (Xi) Where:
Si = deviation standard
5. Score transformation into 1-10 number convention
This following table shows the formula to transform the raw score:
Enriching Quality and Providing Affordable Education through New Academia | 37 Tabel 2. Raw Scores Transformation
Sigma Scale Score Number Scale Raw Score Evaluation
+2,25 10 Mean+(2,25xDS) …………
+1,75 9 Mean+(2,25xDS) …………
+1,25 8 Mean+(1,75xDS) …………
+0,75 7 Mean+(1,25xDS) …………
+0,25 6 Mean+(0,75xDS) …………
-0,25 5 Mean-(0,25xDS) …………
-0,75 4 Mean-(0,75xDS) …………
-1,25 3 Mean-(1,25xDS) …………
-1,75 2 Mean-(1,75xDS) …………
-2,25 1 Mean-(2,25xDS) …………
Interpreting
To measure students grade X SMAN 1 Soth Galesong essay writing skill, researcher uses these following interval:
Score 9,0 - 10 (Very high) Score 8,0 - 8,9 (High) Score 6,5 - 7,9 (Average) Score 5,5 – 6,4 (Low) Score 0 – 5,4 (Very low) (Nurgiyantoro, 1995: 369) T-test
Arikunto’s experiment research approach is used in this step by using this following formula of t-test by Arikunto:
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The Result of the Research and Discussion Result of the Research
Based on research procedure that had been written before, in this part we would explain the students’ skill in writing an essay by using authentic assessment. Because of that, the researcher would also define the students’ score after doing the essay writing test in this chapter.
Students grade X SMAN 1 South Galesong skill in writing an essay by using authentic assessment could be said as adequate or students are able to do the esay writing test. The assessment was based on students ability in doing the test, which is if the number of students who could get a 6.5 score or more is 85% then students ability in writing essay would be considered as adequate. In turn, if students who obtain 6.5 or more scores are less than 85%
then students ability in writing an essay would be considered as less adequate. (Teknik penilaian Depdikbud: 17).
Next, thos data would be percentaged by using persentage statistic analysis technique to show the real score of students. After that, the data is presented in frequency to know how many students who obtains score 6.5 and more and how many students who obtains score less than 6.5. next step, the last result would be in percentage. This result would be presented as this following table:
Enriching Quality and Providing Affordable Education through New Academia | 38 Table 3. Essay Writing Skill Scores By Using Authentic Assessmen To The Students
Grade X SMAN 1 South Galesong