Character Education in Content Courses: Self-Scoring as a Means for Developing Honesty in Students

Autor/in	Djiwandono, Patrisius Istiarto
Titel	Character Education in Content Courses: Self-Scoring as a Means for Developing Honesty in Students
Quelle	In: TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 27 (2016) 2, S.153-165 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0215-773X
Schlagwörter	Ethical Instruction; High Stakes Tests; Ethics; Scoring; Teaching Methods; Foreign Countries; Quasiexperimental Design; Pretests Posttests; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Self Evaluation (Individuals); Language Tests; College Students; Indonesia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethics instruction; Teaching of ethics; Ethikunterricht; Ethik; Bewertung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Ausland; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Language test; Sprachtest; Collegestudent; Indonesien
Abstract	As character education is gaining currency, some institutions have started to incorporate character education into its instructional practices. However, this is not an easy task. Limited hours of contact and teachers' insufficient know-how of teaching and evaluating students' characters have hampered the efforts. This paper reports a small effort to shape students' honesty through self-scoring techniques. An intact class of 19 students who were taking a content course were instructed to self-score their own works in two different tests. Their scores were then compared to the lecturer's scoring. It was found that the students tend to be honest when the test was not weighted substantively, but increasingly over-rated themselves on a high-stake test. The paper then discusses the potential and possible weaknesses of self-scoring technique as a means of cultivating honesty. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Association for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia (TEFLIN). Malang, East Java, 65145, Indonesia. TEFLIN Publication Division, Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang, Jalan Semarang 5, Tel: +62-341-570566; Fax: +62-341-567475; e-mail: journal@teflin.org; Web site: http://journal.teflin.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01