This study aims to analyse the students’ perception of the effect of virtual learning during the covid-19 pandemic. The subject of this research is 40 students in the secretary program, consisting of students from urban and rural areas. The distribution course of the secretary program must be 70% of practice and 30% of theory. Therefore, this research reveals how they perceive virtual learning for those who have more training than theory courses. Employing an online survey using google forms, 12 qualitative questions in the questionnaire were delivered online. The result of the study shows that students’ perceptions of virtual learning are positive. They realise that virtual learning is the only solution to helping the smooth teaching and learning process. However, students feel burdened with the internet quota and signal quality. They still understand the material provided by the lecturer though they find difficulties regarding communication with their lecturers and handling study virtually. Students also faced challenges finding references, doing the assignment, and collecting the assignment. Those difficulties can be caused by their limited internet access. Meanwhile, they can easily use virtual applications since they belong to the ‘Z’ generation, familiar with the technology.

The term of assessment refers to the wide variety of methods or tools that educators use to evaluate or measure students’ learning progress, skill, or acquisition. The benefit of assessment for teachers can be used to gather information on planning and modifying teaching and learning programs for students. This study concerns to the factors affecting the implementation of authentic assessment in reading comprehension. This study was aimed at answering four research questions regarding (1) the implementation of authentic assessment to measure students’ reading comprehension, (2) the correlation between teacher’s background and the implementation of authentic assessment, (3) the correlation between teacher’s professional development and the implementation of authentic assessment, and (4) the correlation between teacher’s belief and the implementation of authentic assessment. The researcher applied quantitative correlation research design. The correlation research design was used since it was appropriate to measure the significant correlation between those two variables. The findings revealed that three teachers as the subject of this research had good effort in implementing authentic assessment. They created various assessment to assess students’ reading comprehension. Based on the observation which has scored, their implementation belongs to good, enough, and fair criteria. The next finding is that based on the SPSS computation, among three factors stated previously, the teacher’s belief is significant correlate to the implementation of authentic assessment, meanwhile teacher’s background and teacher’s professional development are not significant correlate.