6 teachers of English can manage well how to use portfolio in their assessment and
how to make portfolio well-accepted by the students. 1.5.2
Other Researchers The result of this study might give other researchers clear description of
portfolio assessment and the implementation of portfolio in assessing writing. This study, also, hopefully will encourage other researchers to conduct further
study on similar topic. 1.5.3
Students of English Language Education Study Program For students of English Language Education Study Program who probably
read this thesis in the future, this study might broaden their knowledge of English language teaching especially on the assessment in English language teaching.
After reading this study, the readers will get to know some things related to the implementation of portfolio assessment.
1.6 Definition of Terms
To avoid misleading and to have the same understading between the researcher and the readers, the researcher provides some definition of terms used
in this study. The researcher defines some terms as follows. 1.6.1
Perception “Perception is our sensory experience of the world around us. Perception
not only creates our experience of the world around us; it allows us to act within our environment” Wagner, 2009. Thus, we can say that perception is the way
people see, react, perceive, conceive and comprehend about the environment
7 around them as the result of experiencing something. Huffman, Vernoy, M., and
Vernoy, J. in their book Psychology in Action explain when people receive some sensory data, they will always try to organize those data and then interpret it into
something that is familiar with their mental pattern 2000: 107. Based on these experts’ explanations, in this study, the writer formulates
the definition of perception as someone’s point of view and opinion that heshe obtains from interpreting something about what shehe ever experienced in hisher
environtment. For example, in this study the researcher wants to conduct research on students’ perception toward the implementation of portfolio assessment in
writing class. In other words, it can be said that the researcher wants to conduct research which investigate the opinion of the students about portfolio assessment
that they have ever experienced in their writing class. 1.6.2
Assessment Rayment 2006: 2 describes assessment as a method and process. She
explains assessment is a method used in learning to measure how far the teaching- learning process happen, also to gain and collect feedback on the teaching-
learning process. She adds, assessment is also process of evaluating students’ within an educational context and the process of documenting students’
knowledge, skill, and attitude. However, the researcher has her own definition about assessment which is
used in this study. According to the researcher, assessment is the process of evaluating students’ learning to measure their achievement and development in
their learning.
