Online assessment strategies to enhance students’ competence and their implementational challenges

Abstract

Education is a key to a successful life for all human beings. Having a good education certainly helps people to have a better life and improve their living standard. Therefore, education should be continually conducted meaningfully to enhance students’ competence. However, carrying out effective learning and appropriate classroom assessment during the coronavirus pandemic could be highly challenging for the teachers to do. Teachers need to utilize various technological devices to assess students' learning competence. This is due to online learning has become a priority in learning activities in the pandemic situation. Consequently, teachers must have broader horizons on how to conduct the learning processes and appropriate assessment strategies and operate various communication technologies. This study found that English teachers implemented three types of online assessment strategies to improve students' learning competence during the pandemic of Covid-19 in Indonesia. Those strategies are online test administration, portfolio, and self-assessment. Several challenges were accoutered by the teachers in carrying out the classroom assessment through online systems such as slow internet network, expensive internet quota prices, limited access to computer and smartphone devices, poor ability in using digital technology, difficulty in conducting effective interaction. Feedback was occasionally provided when the learning processes were conducted through zoom meeting or google meet. The study implies that teachers should improve their communication technology ability and fulfill online assessment strategies' administrative procedures.

The challenges of online assessment amidst covid-19 pandemic disruption: The voice of EFL lecturers

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Brainstorming as an Effective Learning Strategy to Promote Students’ Critical Thinking Skills

“…In addition, if students show positive changes and produce higher learning achievements, the learning process can also be said to be good. To obtain a good quality of the learning process, one of the efforts to overcome problems in the learning process is to improve learning patterns and to make children take an active role in the learning process (Widiastuti et al, 2021).…”

Teachers’ Perceptions: the Use of Google Form as a Media to Assess Primary School Students

“…Moreover, online assessment becomes easier to do, especially with existence of the internet network. Teachers can take advantage of connected application media to the internet network to assess and evaluate learning online results (Widiastuti et al, 2021).…”

“…Assessment is a process or effort to obtain lots of information about student progress during learning activities as a decision-making material by the teacher to improve student learning outcomes and improve future learning process. Assessment activities are is an integral part of teaching and learning activities (Widiastuti et al, 2021). Conducting online assessment is not simple.…”