Students' perception of Online Assessment use in Schoology in EFL Classrooms

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Amalia, Rosa (2018) Students' perception of Online Assessment use in Schoology in EFL Classrooms. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Nowadays, the use of technology has developed in the educational world. The students and lecturers could utilize or integrate technology in their teaching activities. One way to do it is by applying online assessment and this can be done with the assistance of technology. Schoology is one of the Learning Management System that can be used as a way to do online assessment. This study aims at identifying the students’ perception of the use of online assessment in Schoology; and examining the students’ challenges in doing online assessment. To answer these questions, the study employed a survey research to 120 students of English Teacher Education Department. The questionnaire consisted of both open and close-ended questions. The findings indicated that the students have positive perceptions toward the use of online assessment. There are the easiness in the use of Schoology because of the students' familiarity with the use of online technology, saving their time to do everywhere, and its goodness rather than paper assessment. However, there were also some students who had negative perceptions. They sometimes found that the Schoology is trouble and complicated. It may happen because they were not familiar with the online technology. Besides some perceptions stated above, there were several challenges that are faced by the students such as they must do the test fast and accurately because it is limited by time and the signal sometimes slow. However, the students felt happy doing the online assessment in Schoology because there was no controller for what they were doing in Schoology. In summary, the perceptions of students are not only positive but also negative with some challenges. They also expect that online assessment can be applied in other coursework for identifying the student progress.