| dc.description.abstract | This research aims to investigate the teachers’ guideline in designing
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) and explore the teachers’ challenges in
following their guideline in designing MCQs for the English assessment in one
private high-school in Yogyakarta. To collect the data, the researcher used
qualitative research design and interview as the data collection method. The
participants of this research were two English teachers in one private high-school in
Yogyakarta. The study found that there were fourteen guidelines used in designing
MCQs by teachers in one private high-school in Yogyakarta. The guidelines; were
teachers used the correct grammar; teachers used the materials in accordance with
the indicator; the option materials used must be homogeneous and logical, teachers
used only the necessary statement; teachers did not make questions that gave clues
to the correct answer; teachers used a clear and functional chart, table, picture,
graph, or diagram; teachers did not made a question depended on the answer of
previous question; teachers used book of scoring technique; every question must
have only one correct answer; teachers designed question clearly; the teachers did
not place the correct answer in the same position; teachers designed the option
sentence same in the length; and teachers used communicative language. In addition,
there were five challenges faced by the teachers in applying their guidelines. The
challenges were designing a good MCQs took a long time, making an effective and
a functional distractor, making a lot of number of MCQs, having no guidance of
senior teacher in applying the guidelines, and making question that did not provide
the clue to the correct answer to the students. | en_US |
