An Analysis of Authentic Assessment Administered By English Teachers at Grade Eleven of Nurul Ikhlas Islamic Boarding School, Panyalaian X Koto Tanah Datar

Authentic assessment has important role in assessing students‘ competences in the process of teaching and learning. The case study research was conducted to find out what types of authentic assessment that teachers implemented in teaching English and to investigae how teachers implemented these types of authentic assessment in learning English in grade eleventh. SMA Nurul Ikhlas was selected as research site because this school has been holding independent examinations since a few years back. Every teacher composed the forms of examination for students. Therefore, they did not use examination forms (Mid-Semester and Final Semester Exams) provided by local authorities. In addition, this school also holds special oral examinations for language subjects (English and Arabic) before students take the final semester examination. The population was all English teachers who taught in grade eleven, there were two English teachers. The results of this study indicate that there were five types of authentic assessments administered by teachers in assessing students' English proficiency, namely: oral interview, story or text retelling, writing samples, experiment/demonstration, and teacher‘s observation. All types of authentic assessment were implemented by the teacher concerned in the English language teaching process. Based on observation data, documents, and interviews it can be concluded that the implementation of authentic assessment in learning English needs to be improved, so that the learning objectives listed in can be achieved optimally. Key Words : English teaching learning, Autenthic Assessment, Implementation.