The Implementation of Authentic Assessment by English Teachers Using the 2013 English Curriculum at SMA 1 Padang Panjang.

This study aims to describe the implementation of authentic assessment by English teachers using the 2013 English curriculum at SMA 1 Padang Panjang. The description of authentic implementation includes the types of authentic assessment used, the implementation and the problem faced by the teachers in implementing the authentic assessment. The design of this research was descriptive method. The subjects of this research are five English teachers and 34 students at SMA 1 Padang Panjang. Document analysis, interview guide and questionnaire were used as the research instruments to collect the data. Then, the data were analyzed descriptively. The result of the research shows that the types of authentic assessment used by the five English teachers using 2013 English Curriculum were oral interview, observation, writing sample, project or exhibition, constructed-respond item, and performance based assessment. Furthermore, in implementing those types of assessment, the teachers obtained 40% with poor category. Although they have maximized their effort while implementing the assessment in teaching, they did not do better on the preparing, scoring, and reporting. Then, lack of time and lack of knowledge are some problems faced by the teachers in implementing the authentic assessment. Based on the research, it can be concluded that the English teachers at SMA 1 Padang Panjang showed poor performance in implementing the authentic assessment. Therefore, teachers are advised to improve their knowledge about authentic assessment by establishing training of implementing the authentic assessment at the school. For further research, it is expected to be able to conduct larger samples to determine the implementation of authentic assessment by using the 2013 English curriculum.