Analysis of Student Difficulties in Developing Assesment Instruments (Cognitive and Affektive Spheres) on Mathematics Teaching

Abstract

This research aims to describe students' difficulties when developing assessment instruments in the cognitive and affective domains of mathematics. In addition, this research also aims to provide information about the causes of difficulties faced by students when preparing assessment instruments. The population of this research is students of PGSD STKIP Taman Siswa Bima in the sixth semester who take the learning evaluation. The type of research used is descriptive qualitative research with case study approach. The result of the research shows that students' difficulties in developing the assessment instruments are described as follows: a) the students have not been able to adjust the instruments compiled with the objectives of the learning materials, the aspects to be assessed, the assessment indicator, the instrument filling instruction and the scoring weights. b) students have not been able to formulate questions or statements on the aspects of the assessment are clearly arranged and communicative. 3). In the multiple choice problem, the power of deception has not played a maximum role because the alternative answers are composed giving a tendency for students to choose the correct answer. 4). Student-made test instruments have not considered the problem level. The main causes of various difficulties faced by students in preparing instruments is the lack of knowledge and understanding of students related to the guidelines in preparing the assessment instrument, the lack of mastery of learning materials that result in limited ability to develop assessment instruments and the tendency of students in preparing test instruments just follow the sample test instrument which is given without a good understanding of the guidelines for the preparation of assessment instruments