Examining the Psychological Factors Impacting Teachers' Constraints in Creating and Administering Final Examinations

Abstract

Introduction: Examination tests are used by teachers to evaluate and to get valuable insight into their students' challenges and the strategies they find most effective by reflecting on their teaching practices. If the teacher is aware of the student's weaknesses, he or she may quickly strengthen subsequent lessons.

Objectives: The objective of study is to evaluate of teachers` constraints to generate and administer the final examination test in secondary school.

Methods: The study used mixed methods design. These quantitative and qualitative assessments examined how difficult for teachers to design and administer final exam questions by analyzing questionnaires using objective answer sheets and conducting interviews with teachers. This research focused on the Senior High School grade 12 teachers of Religious Education, Citizenship Education, and History in Palembang who created the questions for the Final School Examination.  

Results: The findings demonstrated that teachers develop formative and diagnostic tests to identify students' weaknesses. The majority of teachers, when asked how they would overcome limitations in test creation, said they were hesitant to study references about test writing or to attend seminars and training. Teacher meetings, talks among colleagues, and topic-teacher meetings are teachers' most typical means to overcome constraints in developing achievement test items.

Conclusions: Based on the results of questionnaires and these interviews, it is clear that Indonesian teachers need in-service training in assessment.