Development and Validation Instruments: Scoring Rubrics of Writing Synopsis and Scoring Sheets for Assessing Student’s Writing Synopsis Ability
Abstract
This research is motivated by problems in writing synopsis in elementary school, the problems are: 1) the
existence of mistakes of students’ perception on the meaning of synopsis; 2) there are still many students
who do not know the characteristics of the correct synopsis; 3) there are still many synopsis results of
students who have not followed the rules of writing correctly; and 4) lack of understanding of teachers in
evaluating and reflecting on students’ writing errors in writing synopsis. To solve the problem, a validation
and a scoring column were conducted and validated on the scoring sheet. This validation result will be a
guide for teachers to assess the students’ writing ability and it is expected to have an effect on the ability
to write a synopsis of grade V elementary school students. The method used was the development and
validation of the instrument, this method was part of the quasi experiment. Validation scoring section of
writing synopsis along with scoring sheet was done by a lecturer in writing field, a lecturer who expert in
Indonesian language, and two college graduate students of basic education of Indonesian language.