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An Authentic Assessment Model To Assess Kindergarten Students' Character, Umi Faizah, Darmiyati Zuchdi, Yasir Alsamiri

REID (Research and Evaluation in Education)

The aim of character development is essential to know, especially for kindergarten pupils. It might help teachers in developing students and offering helps and services. Thus, an assessment model is needed to identify children's character development easily and accurately. This study aims to (1) develop an assessment model for evaluating kindergarten pupils' character which is considered valid, reliable, and fulfill the criteria of goodness of fit statistic, and (2) know the characteristics of an authentic assessment model instrument to assess the achievements of early childhood characters in kindergarten. This research used Plomp's Research and Development Model. Data were collected using …