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Does student self-assessment assess as valid and reliable as teacher assessment?
Abdul Muth’im1.
Assessment is an integral part of instruction. As one form of assessment, self-assessment is
relatively rarely used in writing class. This might be because its validity and reliability is still in
question. This research aims at finding (1) whether students assess their writing tasks the same as
their teacher does, (2) if they assess differently, why they do it differently. Twenty four students
who were taking Writing IV course were involved in this study. The research method used was a
mix of quantitative and qualitative descriptive. For one semester the students were taught to
write an essay in English. Strategies on how to get an idea, to organize idea, to implement proper
language use, to choose appropriate vocabulary, and to use mechanics (e.g. punctuation, spelling
and capitalization) were intensively discussed. Along with the activities they were encouraged to
implement the feedback received in their writing tasks. Finally, at the end of semester, an
assessment was done. The writing task was not merely assessed by the teacher. The students
were also given trust and responsibility to assess their own writing tasks. The results of the two
assessments were compared. It was found that, in general, the results of assessment represented
by scores given by the students did not much differ significantly from the scores given by the
teacher. This implied that self- assessment can be as valid and reliable as teacher-assessment if
students were properly and adequately trained by teacher.
Affiliation:
- Universitas Lambung Mangkurat, Indonesia
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