This study aims to determine what elements of critical thinking are found in English question items are midterm test and final test given by teachers to students and to find out what elements of critical thinking are still lacking in English question items which was given by SMA in kota Jakarta. Researcher focus on the elements of critical thinking and assessment formed in English items by the …

In educational context, grade is used to measure students’ capability towards certain subjects in school and it is valuable for not only the students but also the teachers. Although grades play such important role, there are still problems in grading such as variety of meanings assigned by teachers in one grade which is due to their lack of understanding regarding what grades must reflect. Th…

The study, which was conducted at eight grade of SMPN 2 Babelan-Bekasi, aimed to find out the impact of self and peer assessments to develop students’ writing performance. 42 students with 22 females and 20 males were selected as the respondents. This research was a case study consisting of three stages. First, planning. Second, activity and third, analysis. To collect the data the researche…

The backgrounds of the problem in this thesis are the teachers’ assessment literacy and the level of their self-efficacy are relatively low. This thesis aims to explore pre-service EFL teachers’ perception about assessment and examine their self-efficacy in assessment in the English Teacher Education Program of University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA (UHAMKA), Jakarta. The method used in…

Promoting students' high-order thinking skills has been regarded as one of the most important goals in education, yet in practice these skills are sometimes not trained and assessed well in school. This was the evident from the regular assessment practice conducted by the teachers who do not promote HOTS. This study, therefore, aims at exploring teachers‟ perceptions and practices, the ga…

This was a case study which had been conducted in six public junior high schools in Kota Bekasi in academic year 2016/2017. 17 teachers became the participants of this study with the use of purposive sampling as the way to choose the samples. Questionnaire adapted from Cheng et al (2004), semi-structured interview, and document study were used as the data collection technique. All of the d…

Assessment played significant role in teaching and learning. Through assessment, teachers are able to evaluate whether the education goals and standards of lessons are being met. By assessing teachers are able to make use of assessment to help their plan effective and individualized instruction which meet the student’s need. Unfortunately, several studies shown that most teachers still n…

This research aimed to find out the impact of project based learning and peer assessment learning to improve students‟speaking skill and the benefits of PBL and Peer Assessment. This research was conducted at the seventh grade of SMPN 2 Babelan-Bekasi, from 12 September until 10 October 2017. It involved only one class is the students of VII.1 in SMPN 2 Babelan-Bekasi. This class consists…

Based on the result of the preliminary study, it was found that the fifth-grade students of Cijantung 05 Elementary School faced some difficulties. The difficulties is in their reading skill, particularly in getting the detail information about the text, the meaning of some words written in the text, and the meaning of the question of the text. This study was designed as a qualitative study. It…

The research attempts to answer the questions : 1) How do teachers assess speaking?, 2) What factors are influenced the assessment of speaking? 3) What are the advantages of the performance assessment toward the students speaking ability ? The teacher choose the activity or task choose for the speaking assessment. Dialogs or conversation are the most frequently given task. But in this case the …