Students’ Perception of Self-assessment on Speaking Presentation at Eleventh Grade SMA of YPI Darussalam

This study described about students’ perception of self-assessment on speaking presentation. Now days there are many techniques which are used in assessing and one of them is self-assessment. Self-assessment is alternative assessment which involves the students to judge their own performance. It is appropriate to judge speaking presentation. Speaking presentation is oral presentation that is done by students through telling or presenting certain topic in front of the class. In order to know what students think and the technique have implemented is appropriate with students or not, the researcher here wants to know about student’s perception of self-assessment on speaking presentation. The design of the study is a mix method. Questionnaire and interview were used to collect the data. 63 students of eleventh grade in SMA YPI Darussalam were the subject of the study. The data was collected by using perception questionnaire in which the questionnaire was divided into three categories; evaluation, memory and impression. After gaining the data, the researcher analyzed the data with some formulas. The researcher also used interview to ensure the result of the questionnaire. The research findings from calculating showed that students had positive perception to the implementation of self-assessment on speaking presentation. It can be seen the tendency of the students answer in each item of questionnaire. The student tend to answer agree. It can be concluded that the students are interested about the implementation of self assessment on speaking presentation. It is because there are many advantages that have been gotten, such us; the students can evaluate themselves, responsibility with their presentation and can make their presentation be better. The researcher gives some suggestions to the teacher in order to stay using self-assessment on speaking presentation. The teacher should try to motivate the students and give more guidance to the students in order to the implementation self-assessment can maximally. Keywords: Perception, self-assessment, speaking presentatio