THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ONLINE AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT OF WRITING SKILL AT SMA BOARDING AL-IRSYAD AL-ISLAMIYYAH PURWOKERTO

Assessment as one of the main components in teaching plays a big role to teacher and students. The assessment administrator needs to manage a good assessment, so they will find out the results of the learning process. As the world changes so fast, it demands the learning process to be more efficient and more authentic as it is. During the pandemic Covid-19, SMA Boarding Al-Irsyad Al-Islamiyyah Purwokerto offers the students online authentic assessment, especially in English writing skill subject. This research aims to find out and analyze the implementation of online authentic assessment of English writing skill at SMA Boarding Al-Irsyad Al-Islamiyyah Purwokerto. This qualitative research examined on how the English teacher carried out the online authentic assessment of writing skill and the responses of the students. Class observations, interviews, and documentation were used to gain the data of the research. The English teacher and the students were the subjects of the research. And the data analysis techniques were data reduction, data analysis, and conclusion. The result of the research showed that there were two kinds of online writing assessment which were carried out by the English teacher, writing a personal blog and writing a personal email. The implementation of online authentic assessment of writing skill was clear but there were some suggestions regarding the time allocation, giving feedbacks, and the rubrics of the assessment. And another result was found that the implementation of online authentic assessment of writing skill fulfilled the principles of the criteria and characteristics of authentic assessment and online assessment