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assessment in the classroom, what the obstacles faced by both students and teacher in implementing portfolio assessment.
1.2 Research Question
In line with the focus of the study, this study attempts to address the following questions:
1. How does teacher implement portfolio in the classroom?
2. What are the obstacles faced by teacher in implementing portfolio
assessment? 3.
What are the obstacles faced by students while completing portfolio assessment?
1.3 Purpose of the Study
Based on the research question above, the purposes of this study are as follows:
1. To investigate the use of portfolio assessment in the classroom.
2. To identify the obstacles faced by the teacher in implementing portfolio
assessment in classrooms. 3.
To identify the obstacles faced by students in completing portfolio assessment.
1.4 Significance of the Study
There are significances that this study may offer. Theoretically, the result of this study will be great importance to enrich the literature on understanding the
Rahmi Safitri, 2014 Investigating The Use Of Portfolio Assessment In English Classrooms
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perpustakaan.upi.edu
implementation of portfolio assessment related with the Regulation of Ministry of Education and Culture number 66, 2013 and the way to assess it.
Practically, the result of this study will be useful for teacher to gain more information about portfolio assessment. This study gives information of good
portfolio assessment that fulfills the principles of assessing students’ learning outcomes. This study also shows how portfolio should be implemented in the
classroom and what the steps are to implement the portfolio assessment. The information about obstacles faced by both students and teacher can be a
guide for those who are interested in portfolio in order to minimalize the obstacles or to find out the solution in order to resolve those obstacles.
This study can also be used as a guide for school stakeholder or even government to analyze the effectiveness of using portfolio as an assessment. Therefore
government can develop new method to assess students’ learning outcome if the result of the study is not really satisfying.
1.5 Clarification of the Terms
