The main purpose of this study was to develop self assessment instruments for speaking competency of the eighth grade students of junior high school. The focus of this study was specifically on; 1) finding out the types of self-assessment...
moreThe main purpose of this study was to develop self assessment instruments for speaking competency of the eighth grade students of junior high school. The focus of this study was specifically on; 1) finding out the types of self-assessment needed to be developed; 2) developing the prototype of self assessment instruments; and 3) examining the quality of the developed selfassessment instruments. This study used R&D method of Gall, Gall & Borg model. The subjects of this study were eleven English teachers and syllabus for the eighth grade students of junior high school. The data were obtained through questionnaire, interview, observation and syllabus analysis. The results revealed that there were two form of selfassessment instruments needed to be developed, namely linguistic aspect and non-linguistic aspect self assessment. The prototype of self assessment instruments were developed by considering the need analysis results and grand theory. The instruments were validated and revised by two expert judges and user judges. Based on the validation from expert judges and user judges, the quality of the developed self assessment instruments was categorized as excellent instruments with very high validity.
