Society’s Attitudes towards National Examination and Teacher’s Response to National Assessment

Abstract

This research is aimed to know: 1.) How is society's attitude toward national examination? and 2.) How is the teacher's response to the national assessment? Using a sequential explanatory design as its method, the result says that most of the community rejects the national examination because its function is not able to give specific information about student's capabilities and the real situation among school environment. Nonetheless, teachers say that national assessment which is formulated to fix national examination's lack is still immature to implement. The form of national examination closely the same as PISA 1 is not yet considered familiar for most of the teachers.