Backchannel as an Online HOTS-Based Formative Assessment to Improve Students’ Reading Skills

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10.2991/assehr.k.200318.018How to use a DOI?

Keywords

online backchannel, formative assessment, HOTS, reading skills

Abstract

One of Curriculum 2013 demands in teaching and learning process is the use of higher-order thinking skills (HOTS)-based authentic assessment. It asks the teachers to develop an ongoing activity assessment which records students’ learning development processes. Formative assessment can be considered as a process assessment covering the curriculum 2013 demand. On the other hand, the use of internet-based learning is also part of teaching and learning nowadays. It is supposed that internet can be inserted in the classroom process. In English teaching, reading still becomes a main indicator of students’ achievement. In fact, reading English text is not easy to comprehend. Teachers mostly use lower order thinking skills of reading text, so the students cannot train their reading skills. To add, the fact that teachers use conventional method of assessment leads the students into boredom. In line with the emergence of the need of formative assessment, this study is trying to investigate Backchannel as an online HOTS-based formative assessment in improving students’ reading skills. This study took place in two junior high schools in Semarang, a state school and a private school. Online backchannel was applied and observed well in English reading classroom. At the end, the result shows that students were well-improved in their reading skills since the teachers evaluated the students in the process of learning before continuing to the next material. To add, the students’ boredom was decreased well.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wiyaka
AU  - Entika Fani Prastikawati
AU  - AB Prabowo Kusumo Adi
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/24
TI  - Backchannel as an Online HOTS-Based Formative Assessment to Improve Students’ Reading Skills
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education and Social Science Research (ICESRE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 95
EP  - 100
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200318.018
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200318.018
ID  - 2020
ER  -