An Analysis of Musical Teachers Abilities in Implementing the Authentic Assessment at SMK 7 Padang Indonesia

This study aims to analyze the ability of music teachers in the authentic assessment at SMK 7 Padang. The methodology used in this research was descriptive by conducting interviews and giving questionnaires to music art teachers who became the sample of this study were 10 teachers. Data were analyzed with qualitative and analysis of questionnaire data with percentage values. The results showed that the ability of teachers in preparing the authentic assessment was 69%, the implementation of the authentic assessment was 62.50%, and feedback was 50%. Accordingly, it can be concluded that the teacher has not fully carried out the authentic assessment major principles. Sadly, it was found that there were teachers who carried out the assessments based on their impulsive feeling (intuition).