AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT MODEL IN SOCIAL STUDIES LEARNING TO IMPROVE THE SOCIAL SKILLS

This developmental research aims to produce a character-based authentic assessment instrument on Psychomotor domain in Social Faculty on State University of Medan. The subjects in this study are: (1) Five experts for product validation that have criteria as experts: (a) PIPS, (b) character education, (c) authentic assessment instruments, (d) Indonesian, and (e) psychology; (2) Lecturers; and (3) Students of Social Faculty on State University of Medan. The method used in this study is developmental research method on the type of formative research which 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 were collected through questionnaires and field trials. The results of the expert validation showed that character-based authentic assessment instrument on psychomotor domain are valid and have very good category. The results of field trials (small scale and large scale) indicate that character-based authentic assessment instrument on psychomotor domain have very good validation and effectiveness. Thus, based on the results of expert validation and field trials, it can be concluded that the character-based authentic assessment instrument on psychomotor domain are valid, effective and have very good category, so that the instruments are eligible in measuring he values achievement of the students’ characters especially on psychomotor domain.