about the concept of designing the lesson plan with the syllabus despite of many common challenges in teaching.
d. Authentic Assessment
Along with the implementation of 2013 curriculum, the Ministry of National Education and Culture through its law number 65 year 2013 chapter IV
adopts authentic assessment as the assessment of instruction process. This assessment assesses
students’ readiness, process, and result of complete learning.
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The different characteristic and format of authentic assessment between previous form curriculum assessment is also attributed in this curriculum.
The result of authentic assessment can be used by the teachers to plan remedial program, enrichment, and counseling service. Besides that, it can be also
used as the substance to repair the instruction process based on the standard of educational assessment. Here is further explanation relates to Authentic
assessment.
Authentic means accurate or based in fact.
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Assessment is defined as the process of making a judgement or forming an opinion, after considering
something or someone carefully.
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Form the literal definition above, authentic assessment can be defined as the process of judging or valuating something or
someone based on real condition by considering the aspects carefully. Authentic assessment is defined by many educational language experts so
far. O’Malley and Pierce in Hana stated that authentic assessment as the multiple forms of assessment reflecting students’ learning, achievement, motivation, and
attitudes toward classroom instructional activities.
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Another definition about authentic assessment is stated by Newman, Brandt and Wiggins in Bruce that
assessment is authentic when it measures products or performances that having
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Lampiran Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia Nomor 65 tahun 2013.op.cit. p. 11
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Macmillan English Dictionary for Advance Learners.op.cit. p.78
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Ibid., p.70
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Hana Yulinda Fithriyani, Implementing Authentic Assessment: A Challenge for English Language Teachers, p. 2
