Ida Ayu Made Sri Widiastuti
This study investigated the teachers' beliefs and practices of formative assessment and how formative assessment triggers the students' active learning. In depth semi-structured interviews were conducted to three experienced junior high school teachers to collect the required data for this study. The results of the study revealed that the teachers in this study have strong beliefs that formative assessment practices can promote the students' active learning. However, all teachers in this study conduct the formative assessment based on their own understanding of formative assessment. This study indicates that urgent comprehensive understanding is needed by the EFL teachers to appropriately implement the formative assessment in order to effectively achieve the best quality of learning standard.
Mahasaraswati Denpasar University, Indonesia; Malang State University, Indonesia
