Rifki Nurlaili Hidayat, 0203516042 (2019) DEVELOPING PROBLEM-SOLVING BASED ASSESSMENT MODULE TO STIMULATE THE CRITICAL THINKING AND CREATIVITY OF THE STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL. Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Hidayat, Nurlaili Rifki. 2019. Developing Problem-Solving Based Assessment Module to Stimulate the Critical Thinking and Creativity of the Students’ Writing Skill (The Case of SMA Sultan Agung 1 Semarang in Academic Year of 2017/2018). A Thesis. English Language Education, Graduate Program, State University of Semarang. Prof. Dr. Dwi Rukmini, M.Pd., Second Advisor: Dr. Dwi Anggani Linggar Bharati, M.Pd. Keywords: Problem-Based, writing, assessment, critical thinking, creativity Assessment is an important component in the implementation of the 2013 Curriculum. assessment and learning cannot be separated due to the assessment result is also used to enhance the learning. Based on the result of monitoring and evaluation the implementation of 2013 Curriculum high school level in 2014 showed that there are some difficulties faced by the teachers in implementing the 2013 Curriculum. The main difficulties faced by the educators are in formulating indicators, compiling instrument items, and carrying out assessments with a variety of techniques. Therefore, in relation to the problems described, this research was focused on the issues related to the development of problem-solving based assessment model especially in term of writing assessment to stimulate the critical thinking and creativity of the students. This study used Research and Development (R&D) which was done through seven steps. The subjects of this study were the students of X MIPA 6 of SMA Sultan Agung 1 Semarang in the academic year of 2017/2018. Questionnaire, interview, observation checklist, and test were used as the instrument in collecting the data. The teacher collaborated with the researcher in developing the problem-based writing assessment module. After the module was revised based on the experts’ suggestions, main field testing was conducted. The module was utilized during the treatments. The result of this study revealed that there was a significant improvement of the students’ writing skill, critical thinking skill, and creativity skill. These skills improved after they were given treatments. It is proven by the mean score results of the pre-test and post-test. The students’ score improvement of the writing skill was 47.83 to 70.83, and critical thinking and creativity skill was 42.67 to 60.13. Moreover, the paired sample test results show that there is significant different between the result of pre-test and post-test. In other words, there is a significant improvement on the students’ writing skill, critical thinking and creativity skill after they did problem-based writing assessment module during the teaching and learning process.

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