Indonesian Senior High School student’s perspective of the poetry teacher’s role in authentic assessment of poetry writing

Abstract

ABSTRACTCompetency of poetry writing assessment is one of the significant keys that must be owned by teacher, especially the teacher with poet competency. This research analyzed the poetry teacher’s role in authentic assessment of poetry writing based on Indonesian Senior High School students’ perspective. The data were obtained from Senior High School students of language major in poetry writing class. The characteristics of the poetry teacher were gained based on the teacher’s competency in publishing a national scale-poetry book. This work reveals that according to the student’s perspective, poetry teachers did not involve the students in poetry writing assessment inhibited the authentic assessment of poetry writing. Therefore, the instrument of objective assessment of poetry writing could minimize the student assessment mistake so that the poetry teachers become facilitators as well as mentors in authentic assessment collaboratively undertaken with students.