Success and failure of English as a foreign language lecturer in applying the assessment as learning in higher education

Authors : Agung PRİHANTORO, Toto HERMAWAN

Pages : 131-149

Doi:10.47806/ijesacademic.896661

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Publication Date : 2021-08-24

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The paper intends to describe how English as a Foreign Language lecturers succeed and fail to apply the assessment as learning in teaching and learning programs in higher education. The explanatory mixed-methods were conducted to survey 57 respondents in the higher institutions in the Special Province of Yogyakarta, Indonesia and to interview 8 respondents in the high-level group of applying the assessment. Two criteria of the success and failure are insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(1); to promote active and proactive learning and insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(2); to result in good learning outcome. The findings indicate that some of the lecturers succeeded to promote active and proactive learning of peer assessment, self-assessment, self-reflection in and outside classrooms and no criteria compliance, to provide oral and written feedback to students, and to result in good final grade. A lecturer failed to apply the assessment for her limited knowledge and some lecturers failed because of their low achieving students and of having no time to give feedback.
Keywords : lecturers success, lecturer`s failure, assessment as learning, English as a foreign language