Need analysis: A case study of students’ formative assessment at SMP Negeri 1 Mananggu, Indonesia

Formative Assessment are very important in the learning process. Through this formative assessment, students can measure their learning and the teacher can make improvements toward their quality of learning. The student’s ability to complete a test is a very important role, therefore students’ English skill is the language skills that are needed in evaluation.
Thus, this study is aimed to show what are the students’ goal, what are the target and the learning needs in measuring their English skill. The result were, the students want to have more pictures in their formative assesment and the students want to do the formative test through offline class.