The Real Development of Authentic Assessment Based on Characters of Primary Students

The development of this research is intended to produce a character-based authentic
assessment instruments at attitudes and skills in primary school. Subjects of this study are: (1) Primary
school teacher; (2) Primary school students; (3) Seven experts for validation of assessment instruments
that have the following criteria are: 1) mathematician SD; 2) Sciences SD expert; 3) Socials SD
expert; 4) Indonesian SD expert; 5) Civics SD experts; 6) Assessors expert, and 7) psychologists. The
method used in this study is development research on the type of formative research. Its development
is focused on two phases: preliminary phase and formative evaluation phase to include self evaluation,
prototyping (expert reviews, one-to-one and small group), and field test. Data are collected through
questionnaires and field trials. Expert validation results show that attitude character-based assessment
instruments are valid, good and decent toassess students' attitude with a note should be revised in the
sub-components categorized not good. The results of field trials (small scale and large scale) indicates
that the character-based assessment instruments developed attitudes have good validity and have very
high reliability. Thus, based on the results of expert validation and field trials can be concluded that
the attitude of character-based assessment instruments are valid and have very high reliability
category, so the instruments eligible for use in measuring the achievement of the values of the
character of students