The Development of Assessment for Learning Guidelines to Enhance English Reading Comprehension Skills for Tenth Grade Students

Abstract

The purposes of this research were: 1) to develop Assessment for Learning guidelines to enhance English reading comprehension skills for tenth grade students; and 2) to study the development of English reading comprehension skills for tenth grade students, which were studied through Assessment for Learning. The samples, obtained through cluster random sampling for one room, consisted of 40 students in the tenth grade. The research was pre-experimental research with one group pretest-posttest design. The research instruments were lesson plans Assessment for Learning guidelines to enhance English reading comprehension skills and a test of English reading comprehension skills. Statistics for data collection included content, t-test for dependent samples, and relative gain scores.

The findings were as follows: 1) Assessment for Learning guidelines to enhance English reading comprehension skills were setting learning objectives, setting learning success criteria, using questions to check for understanding, participating in student assessments, and giving feedback; and 2) the development of students’ English reading comprehension skills, which were studied through Assessment for Learning after studying higher than before at the .01 level of significance, could be summarized as follows: 6 students with a very high level of reading comprehension skills, 14 students with a high level of reading comprehension skills, 16 students with a medium level of reading comprehension skills, and 4 students with a basic level of reading comprehension skills.