THE PERFORMANCE-BASED ASSESSMENT TO TEACH WRITING OF ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY

Abstract

Since performance-based assessment is one of the authentic learning methods, it is applicative to help students in learning argumentative essay. This study aimed at describing the implementation of performance-based assessment to teach writing of argumentative essay. It was conducted at accounting department of economic faculty in Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang. The researcher collected the data through test and questionnaire. Moreover, this recent study applies descriptive qualitative to define the phenomena of the teaching learning process through performance-based assessment. The results indicated that the students were able to study the characteristics of argumentative essay and then write the essay to investigate a topic related to accounting, economic, and business. Further, they generated and evaluated the evidence gathered from relevant articles to establish the topic systematically.