THE STRATEGIES AND CHALLENGES OF ENGLISH TEACHERS IN DEVELOPING ASSESSMENT FORMATIVE TEST?
Abstract: This article
purposed to describe the strategies and challenges of English teacher in
developingassessment formative test. This study was conducted at SMK Negeri I
Gorontalo in the 2014/2015academic years with six English teachers as the
participant. The focus of research is formative test. The study used case study
and data collection were obtained from interview to the English teachers as participants
of research. The result indicates that teacher strategy mostly used to develop
assessment informative test was objective test, notably multiple choices than
essay form. Then, the challenges ofdeveloping formative test are various; the
lack of resources (teacher handbook) and in service teacher training did not
give a detail information or material related to the developing of English
assessment.Based on this result, it is recommended that school principals or
supervisor give more attention to theEnglish teacher to develop English
assessment such as to provide various model of test conducted in several
activities such as in service teacher training. Besides, the teacher should be
given motivation to do to explore some models of test in many sources.
Author: Suslaningtias Lakoro
Journal Code: jppendidikangg160240
