DESIGNING ICT COMPETENCES-INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM

Abstract

This study aims at designing ICT competences – integrated assessment instruments of English Language Assessment and Language Assessment Instrument Development courses for English Language Education Study Program by analyzing the existing assessment instruments from five universities in Indonesia. The analysis involved the ICT competences proposed by UNESCO and Digital Media and Assessment Descriptors of English Profiling Grid (EPG). The study applied Design and Development Research (DDR) as the research design and qualitative as the research method. The used stages of DDR in this study are Identify Problem; Describe the Objectives, Design and Develop the Prototypes and Validate the Prototypes. The result of the study found that ICT competences are mostly integrated in the use of word-processing of the existing assessment instruments as a tool which use hardware such as computer, laptop and printer as well as software such as Windows/Mac and Microsoft Word by using features on them such as page layout, margins, table, font type and size, numbering, space and grammar checker. Then the researcher tried to provide the procedure of ICT competences integration and the design of ICT competences integrated – Language Assessment Instrument Development course.