What is the effectiveness of formative assessment for assessing students' speaking skills at SMP Negeri 6 Moncongloe?. The purpose of this research is to determine the effectiveness of formative assessment in assessing the speaking skills of students at SMP Negeri 6 Moncongloe.
INTRODUCTION
- Background
- Problem Statement
- Research Objective
- Significance of The Research
- Scope of Research
The findings of the research include a description of the implementation of formative assessment in the learning process and a model for assessing students' speaking skills in English lessons. It is in line with the formative assessment model as well as with the strategy of obtaining student feedback.
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Previous Related Research Findings
The results of previous researchers above showed that the formative assessment is effective in alleviating students' speaking anxiety, improving the students' participation in oral production, promoting students' egos and motivation to learn English, and the gap between low and high reducing achievers while increasing them. overall student performance. Moreover, the main challenges a teacher faces in conducting formative assessment are time-consuming and additional burden on the teacher's burden.
Concept of Assessment
Summative assessment is known as learning assessment and is addressed by various researchers to make this term familiar to all educators. A good deal of informal teacher assessment involves classroom assignments designed to elicit performance without recording scores and making fixed judgments about a student's competence.
Formative Assessment
Moreover, formative assessment is no longer only intended for evaluation, but also for decision-making. To the extent formative assessment is defined as information communicated to the student that is intended to modify his or her thinking or behavior to improve the learning process. Because formative assessment is the partnership that involves teachers and students in their learning goals.
Purpose: the most critical issue when we implement formative assessment in the classroom, we need to identify a clear objective of the assessment and its focus is on the students and the appropriate feedback given to them. Popham (2009:8) and other researchers emphasized training teachers to have well-implemented formative assessment in classrooms. Accommodation: it is a significant challenge for the future of formative assessment because it is provided to enable all tests.
Time: is the triumphant key of formative assessment is the excellent allocation or distribution of time for both teachers and students (ibid.: 11).
The Spoken Language as a Concept
First of all, the timing of feedback should be immediate to allow students to use it at the right time, and teachers should delay the return of tests and assignments should be avoided because it is part of bad timing. The teacher should know each student's level very well to be fair in giving feedback. Furthermore, feedback in relation to the mode can be given orally or in writing.
In addition, to efficiently provide excellent feedback to students, the teacher must assess whether the audience should be an individual student, part of the class, or the entire Brookhart class. Knowing how to give students feedback is closely related to the knowledge that every teacher should have about tests. In fact, spoken word differs from other skills such as written language because it is received in audio.
Speaking is part of everyday life; the average person produces thousands of words a day.
Speaking Skill
They should also be careful about correcting their students' mistakes as this will prevent them from speaking again, especially if it is in front of their classmates. It will make them feel embarrassed. The students have difficulty speaking because they do not have enough vocabulary to communicate better in the target language. In foreign language education, it is important to assess the language skills of all students. The oral assessment is about the students' knowledge of the language items and the ability to use this experience to communicate in that language.
It is also beneficial to evaluate students on an ongoing basis, to check students' "errors, as Luoma says that Normal speech contains a fair number of errors and mistakes." Speaking assessment is used as a tool for the teacher to determine what skills and knowledge students already have and what areas need more focus. It also provides information about student performance that allows teaching and learning activities to be modified in response to student needs and recognizes the significant benefit that feedback can have in the learning process. Formative assessment is an integral part of teaching and learning and is an ongoing process in the classroom.
The integration of self-assessment and peer assessment depends on students understanding the skills for productive activities.
Conceptual Framework
Ask the class to assess oral presentations produced by groups of pupils, or individuals. Asking learners to draw up their criteria for assessing an oral performance, based on their understanding of the learning objectives, and then asking them to apply them. By asking pupils to assess each other in groups of three, two pupils will carry out a pair work task, and the other pupil will assess one or both of the others, perhaps recording the results on a sheet.
As above, but a student will rate the performance and then discuss the results together. Third, the researcher discovered the effectiveness of conducting a formative assessment to assess students' speaking ability.
RESEARCH METHOD
- Research Method
- Participants
- Research Instrument
- Data Collection
- Method of Data Analysis
The researcher observed and interviewed the teachers' indicator for evaluating the students' speaking ability through formative assessment. Data obtained through interview was about the effectiveness and mechanism of formative assessment in the language classroom. The purpose of the research aimed to find out the effectiveness of formative assessment in evaluating students' speaking ability.
This statement showed how important the implementation of formative assessment is to retain students. interaction in the learning process providing more opportunities for students to express their ideas, whether the teachers used planned or interactive formative assessment. Teachers' views on the effectiveness of formative assessment showed that formative assessment effectively influenced the students' speaking ability because students can learn from their mistakes. Below are the details of the research question by answering two subsections of formative assessment.
Fouzia B.A (2013) found that formative assessment positively affects students' speaking skills and increases their participation in oral production.
FINDING AND DISCUSSION
Findings
- The implementation of formative assessment in learning process. 37
P1: I think it is beneficial to use it in the classroom, it improves learning in one hand through, improves students' participation in the learning process and helps the teacher to collect data about the students' level, especially in terms of language skills. P2: Hmm, the effects of formative assessment in my classroom, I think it leads to positive effects on both the learning and teaching process. On the other hand, it helps the teacher to analyze the students' abilities whether they are mastering their learning objectives or not.
These questions showed that the implementation of formative assessment was beneficial to use in the English classroom, it led to a positive effect on both the learning and teaching process. The statements illustrated that student feedback was provided to facilitate students in sharing their ideas and information. These questions showed that the goals of teaching speaking were to enable students to speak the target accurately and fluently without difficulty, which improved students' oral production and their pronunciation, including intonation and stress.
All teachers evaluated the level of speaking skills of their students in three different categories which are good, average and poor.
Discussions
Lingying Tang (2016) who asserted in the same cases, the implementation of formative assessment in the English language classroom is effective to facilitate students". In general, formative assessment is necessary to develop students' oral skills, which reduces their fear and anxiety in speaking, creates an interactive classroom, and provides more opportunities for students to express their ideas. Based on the findings and discussions, the results drawn from this study regarding the effectiveness of formative assessment on students.
Formative assessment is an integral part of teaching that should be implemented in the English classroom. A teacher should not directly correct his students' mistakes while they are speaking because in light of the use of formative assessment in a classroom situation. I used both planned and interactive formative assessment, as the main purpose is to create an interactive classroom that gives students more opportunities to express their ideas.
Hmm, the effects of formative assessment in my classroom, I think lead to positive effects in both the learning and teaching process.
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
Conclusion
Suggestion
Teachers should provide positive feedback to their students to broaden their background in the target language. Teacher talk time should be reduced to give students more opportunities to speak the target language. Another researcher can use formative assessment in another language skill to see whether or not it is effective in assessing language skills and provide percentage data to prove the clarity of the effectiveness itself.
Teachers' and students' attitudes towards peer evaluation and feedback in teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP). 2009).Learning Ways, Learning Theories and Learning Styles in the Classroom .USA and Canada .Routledge. the impact of peer evaluation on students' language ability. I think it is really useful to use it in the classroom, it improves learning on the one hand, improving the participation of students in the learning process and helping the teacher to collect data about students.
The main goal in teaching speaking is to enable students to speak fluently and accurately without difficulty. I mostly used embedded in the curriculum because the purpose of my lesson is to increase the participation of the students and gather information about their improvement in the learning process. On the other hand, it helps teachers analyze students' abilities, whether they are mastering their learning objectives or not.
