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assessment aims to measure or summarize what a student has grasped and typically happens at the end of a course or unit instruction.
1.2 Research Problems
Based on the background above, there are three proposed questions in the research problems:
1 How are the existing formative assessments constructed by English teachers in state senior
high schools in Semarang municipality? 2
What kind of model of formative assessment on recount is developed? 3
To what extent is the effectiveness of formative assessment on recount applied in senior high school 11 Semarang?
1.2 Purposes of the Study
The purposes of the study were:
1 To present the existing formative assessments constructed by English teachers in state
senior high schools in Semarang municipality. 2
To present the model of formative assessment on recount. 3
To find out the effectiveness of formative assessment on recount applied in senior high school 11 Semarang
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1.4 Significance of the Study
The findings of this study give some benefits to be as follows: 1
Theoretically, the result of the research can as the basus of the English teacher due to limited time for teaching.
2 Pedagogically, the result of this research can contribute to the English teachers for the
improvement of teaching and learning English.
1.5 Terms in this Research
In order to avoid the wrong understanding, the writer illustrates each term applied in this study. They are as follows:
1 Development is a new product or idea the process of developing or being developed
Concise Oxford English Dictionary Eleventh Edition. Developing, of course, is not something new, rather dates back socializing some available material by adapting,
modifying, restructuring, and simplifying modern concepts along with students‟ cultural background.
2 Formative assessments written by Huges Arthur 2003:5 stated that an assessment when
teachers use it to check on the progress of their students, to see how far they mastered what they should have learned, and then to use this information to modify their future
teaching plan. 3
Recountis a genre in the curriculum 2013. A recount according to Anderson Mark and Anderson Kathy 2003: 48 is a piece of text that retells past events, usually in the order in
which they happened.
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1.6 The Organization of Writing
