Formative Assessment In Problem Solving Oriented Language Learning In High School

Abstract

The aim of language learning is to teach students to develop theoretical and practical langauge skills. To find out whether student are skilled or unskilled, it is necessary to use appropriate assessment. Assessment is not just a complement to learning, but is a quality assessment that has validity and reability. However, in reality student lack skill in all four langauge skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). For this reason, educators must be able to teach language skills according to learning outcomes. The solution offered to this problem is to develop a formative assessment model in language learning that is applied to online classes. This research is of the Research and Development (R&D) type using the Plomp development model wich consists of preliminary research, prototype design, and evaluation. The sampling technique was carried out using purposive sampling to obtain 40 student as a test of model developed. The data collection method was carried out using questionnaires and document. Research instruments include questionnaires, observation sheets and test. The data analysis tecnique used in this research is descriptive analysis tecnique, namely describing the result of data tabulation. The research result show that the validity value obtained an average 91,11% in the very high category, the practicality is 92,37% and the effectiveness of the model can be seen from the graph of the scores obtained by student who use the model. This shows that the formative assessment model can be applied in Indonesian language learning.