WRITING ASSESSMENT LITERACY OF ENGLISH TEACHERS IN SMK KY AGENG GIRI DEMAK

Munasih, Dian Septia. 2023. Writing Assessment Literacy: Investigating EFL
Teachers' Writing Assessment Practices in A Vocational School. Final
Project, English Study Program, Faculty of Language and Arts Education,
Universitas PGRI Semarang. Advisor 1: Dr. Wiyaka, M.Pd., Advisor 2:
Entika Fani Prastikawati, S.Pd., M.Pd.
Keyword: Assessment, assessment literacy, writing assessment literacy, English
teaching
Assessment literacy has been one of the crucial issues in English language teaching.
Many research has highlighted the need of assessment training for in-service teachers.
Unfortunately, there is limited number of research in Indonesia investigating the issue
of assessment literacy especially concerning to writing assessment literary. To fill the
gaps, this study is trying to capture the writing assessment literacy, practices and
training needs employed by English teachers in a vocational school. A mix method
research design was utilized by the writers in gaining the main data of this study. Three
English teachers in a private vocational school (SMK Ky Ageng Giri) were
volunteered to be the participants of this study. In collecting the data, the writers
adopted and adapted an open-ended questionnaire. Furthermore, observation was also
conducted to support the findings. The finding shows that each English teacher has
done writing assessment in a different way. One has detailly implemented writing
assessment by considering the writing assessment rubrics well. On the other hand,
another English teacher did not always implement writing assessment during teaching
and learning. The disparity result between open-ended questionnaire and observation
result reveals that the English teachers are still lack of writing assessment knowledge
and practices. So, formal training in writing assessment is needed.