FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI PENGGUNAAN ASESMEN ALTERNATIF DALAM MENGEVALUASI HASIL BELAJAR SISWA

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to describe the evaluation of the students’s learning achievement and the factors influencing the teachers in using alternative assessment in evaluating the students’s learning achievement. The method applied was mixed method explanatory in which the research began with quantitative approach and continued with qualitative approach. The research was conducted in Utan Kayu Selatan area of the East Jakarta as from April to November 2011 and the primary school teachers were determined as the research subjects. The samples were selected by random sampling for the quantitative approach and certain criteria were used for the qualitative approach. Based on the data analysis, from 41 only nine teachers used the alternative assessment. In-depth study indicated the influencing factors for the teachers to use the alternative factors were (1) boredom of using the conventional evaluation, (2) wish to adjust the evaluation technique to the instructional objectives, (3) wish to gain authentic assessment of the students’ competence, (4) awareness to grow honesty value to the students, (5) insight of the students’ different competence, and (6) teachers’ creativity.