Teachers' Assessment Types in English Classroom

The purpose of this study is to find out teachers’ assessment type in English languange learning as a tool to measure and evaluate students' abilities. The participants of this research are teachers of cendikia islam El-Hakim junior high school. This study proposed one research question,” what kind of assessment type do teachers use in the English Language Learning ?”. Assessment an ongoing process that encompasses a much wider domain, Assessment is the essential part of tools in measuring students abilities. The problem of this study is the using teachers’ assessment type in measure the students. This study uses qualitative descriptive and the data were obtained through interview, observation and document based from 3 teachers on cendikia islam El-Hakim junior high school. The result of the research served descriptively, regarding all the types of assessment except alternantive that applied in their classroom, traditional assessment; multiple choice, essay, fill in the blank, short answer, etc. and alternative assessment; computer based test, portfolio, and group project. Both of these two types of assessments is needed to apply even though the result showed that the traditional one is more apply as assessment on students’ than Alternative one. although the Summative and Formative assessment are often used on both assessment, formal assessment used as Traditional assessment, while Informal assessment used as Formative assessment Based on the research findings, some recommendations for the school as policy maker, the students, and the teachers are finally presented.