Roni Wahyudi, 0203516068 (2019) DEVELOPING DISCOVERY-BASED ASSESSMENT MODULE TO STIMULATE THE CRITICAL THINKING AND CREATIVITY OF THE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL The Case of Tenth Graders of SMA Sultan Agung 1 Semarang in the Academic Years of 2017/2018. Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Wahyudi, Roni. 2019. Developing Discovery learning-based Speaking Assessment Module to Stimulate the Students’ Critical Thinking and Creativity (The Case of SMA Islam Sultan Agung Semarang in Academic Year of 2017/2018). A Thesis. English Language Education, Graduate Program, State University of Semarang. First Advisor: Prof. Dr. Dwi Rukmini, M.Pd., Second Advisor: Dr. Dwi Anggani Linggar Bharati, M.Pd. Keywords: Discovery learning, speaking, assessment, critical thinking, creativity. In the teaching and learning process, assessment is considered a critical component of curriculum design to determine whether the goals of education have been achieved. In fact, many teachers have difficulties to design a suitable assessment instrument align with the teaching and learning objectives as the consequence of the emergence of the revised 2013 curriculum which requires the teacher to develop the students’ critical thinking and creativity. This study intended to analyse the realization of speaking assessment in order to stimulate the students’ critical thinking and creativity in English Teaching and learning, explain the development of discovery-based speaking assessment module to stimulate the students’ critical thinking and creativity, and explain the effectiveness of discovery- based speaking assessment module to stimulate the students’ critical thinking and creativity. Research and Development (RnD) approach was employed with the students of X IPA 3 of SMA Islam Sultan Agung Semarang in the academic year of 2017/2018 as the subjects. This study used quantitative and qualitative data through a test, and the questionnaire, interview, observation checklist, as the instrument in collecting the data. The teacher collaborated with the researcher in developing the discovery-based speaking assessment module. Then, the module was revised based on the experts’ recommendations before doing field testing. In the main field test, the students' scores on speaking skill were improved from 56.33 to 76.17, on the critical thinking skill was improved from 56.4 to 76.8, and on creativity, the skill was improved from 56.2 to76.1. Moreover, when the teacher did a paired sample test, the result showed that the score of Sig. (2 tailed) value (0.00) is lower than 0.05 of those students’ scores. These results showed that improvements in the students' scores were significant after they were taught using discovery-based speaking assessments module. To conclude, the significant improvements indicated that discovery-based speaking assessments module were effective to improve the students’ critical thinking and creativity.

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