Blog as an Online Assessment: Exploring Students’ Experiences of It

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10.2991/assehr.k.200427.052How to use a DOI?

Keywords

blog, online assessment, students’ experiences

Abstract

Assessment is a fundamental process to identify the students’ progress and achievement in language learning. Teachers can measure the successful of teaching and recognize the students’ strengths and weaknesses from the result of assessment. Nowadays, teachers do not need to come to the classroom to assess the students’ understanding and progress, they can do it online such as using blog as an assessment tool. This study aimed to explore students’ experiences in using blog as an online assessment by interviewing four students who were active using blog as an assessment tool. The findings showed that students used different ways in using blog as an assessment tool in terms of material they uploaded and the creativity in designing blog. Participating students found the challenges in using blog particularly in selecting the materials and designing the creative layout of the blog. The study highlights that blog can be used as an interesting assessment tool that explore teachers and students’ creativity. Teachers need to have a goog understanding of the materials covered and the content that is understandable for the students.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

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  - Fitriah
AU  - Kharisatur Rofiqo
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/01
TI  - Blog as an Online Assessment: Exploring Students’ Experiences of It
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on English Language Teaching (ICONELT 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 263
EP  - 265
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200427.052
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200427.052
ID  - 2020
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