Development of Reading Comprehension Ability Assessment for Students

. Reading Skills courses for students in Higher Education, especially in the Indonesian Language Study Program at the University of Muhammadiyah Lampung are not easy to achieve in learning indicators. The measuring instrument used for the assessment is the manual assessment and it is not effective yet. The alternative to seeing the achievement of language learning outcomes is to use the right measuring instrument, namely the assessment instrument (assessment) of reading comprehension. This assessment is developed based on the concept / theory of reading comprehension. The objective of this study is: to develop an assessment instrument to measure students' reading comprehension skills for Indonesian Language Education students. The data collecting method is done through the Borg & Gall development method with five stages, 1) research and information collecting, 2) planning, 3) develop preliminary form of product, 4) preliminary field testing, and 5) final product. This research has limitations, namely the product in the form of an instrument as a new assessment tool until the validity test stage and the research can be developed again to be broader and more perfect.