NATIONAL EXAMINATION AS

GRADUATION STANDARD
GROUP 2

 Education is one of the important things in development of a

nation. According to UU No. 20 Th 2004, education is one of
the effort and plan to develop all students potential through
the learning process. Educations purpose is to develop
students potential to make them clever, make them control
their selves better, diligent, and have skill to be a good
citizens. To reach the goal of education, curriculum was made
and to see how effective the education is, evaluation or
national test was made.

BACKGROUND

 So, evaluation is one of the important components that

cant be separated with education and curriculum. But
you need to understand that not all kind of evaluations
can be used to measure how success the education is.
National Examination or Ujian Nasional (UN) is one of
the evaluations we mentioned above. The government is
the one who made this kind of evaluation. Is UN is the
right indicator to measure how success is education is?

BACKGROUND

 One of the teacher task and responsibility in school is to

teach students, and also they have responsibility to give
the score for students learning achievements. Score is
from formative test and summative test, the result of both
tests will be calculated to see whether the student pass the
subject or not. In JHS and SHS there are a lot of subjects
that student learn, while UN only have 3-6 subjects.

BACKGROUND

 Then why the student should spent the cost, energy and
time to learn the other subjects? This means that the UN
is not effective as the standard graduation. There are
things that must be addressed by the government before
implementing the UN among others equating educational
facilities in the city and in the country and the need for
quality distribution of teachers throughout the school.
The next graduation assessment standards should include
aspects pedagogies (cognitive, psychomotor and
affective) thoroughly.

BACKGROUND

 The National Examination (UN) is the government's

policy in education to determine the standard of quality
of education. The policy is a political decision or political
education, which concerns the interests of various parties,
even within certain limits can be politicized for the sake
of power (Mulyasa, 2004: 180). As educators we agreed
the purpose of the test is to determine the extent of the
effectiveness of the efforts undertaken in the educational
process, whether it has satisfied or not.

STATING ISSUE

 UN has function as a "quality control" of the education

system, for control of the proceedings, and in-put of
education is getting smaller, even when centralization
was actually control center in the field of education cant
be done fully, because of the fragility of mental tissue
bureaucracy due to various factors beyond educational
problems. The function of national education standards is
creating strategies and development plans after the data
obtained from the national evaluation of learning such as
the National Examination (UN).

STATING ISSUE

 First, the pedagogical aspect. In science education, the

ability of learners includes three aspects, namely
knowledge (cognitive), skills (psychomotor), and attitude
(affective). But judged within the UN is only one aspect
of ability, namely cognitive, whereas the two other
aspects are not tested as a determinant of graduation.

CONTROVERSY

 Second, the judicial aspect. Several articles in the

National Education System Law No. 20 of 2003 has been
violated, such as Article 35 paragraph 1 which states that
national standards consist of content standards, processes,
competence of graduates, staff, facilities and
infrastructure, management, financing, and evaluation of
education, which should be improved in a planned and
periodic. UN only measure the ability of knowledge and
determination of educational standards determined
unilaterally by the government.

CONTROVERSY

 Third, social and psychological aspects. In convening the

UN mechanism, the government has set a standard
passing score of 3.01 in 2002/2003 to 4.01 in 2003/2004
and 4.25 in 2004/2005. This raises psychological anxiety
for students and parents. Students were forced to
memorize the lessons will be in the national examination
at school or at home.

CONTROVERSY

 Fourth,
the
economic
aspect.
Economically, the
implementation of the UN wasteful costs. Last year, funds
disbursed from the state budget reached Rp 260 billion, yet
with additional funding from the budget and the public. In
2005 it is mentioned UN funding comes from the government,
but it is not clear the source, so it allows people to return will
be charged. In addition, the system has not been made clear to
avert financial irregularities UN funds. The management
system for this is still very closed and unclear accountability.
These conditions allow the occurrence of irregularities
(corruption) UN fund.

CONTROVERSY

Wastage costs
Teachers are useless in UN
UN impacts to students
The government has not equate facilities to support
education

ADDITIONAL CONTROVERSY

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