Teachers' Online Assessment in English Language Education Department at UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya

In this digital era, online assessment is used because it has several advantages including saving time on the assessment process, giving feedback to a large number of students, reducing paper use and many more. For this reason, this research aims to explore the strategies in which English teachers assess students’ online work and present challenges faced by them when the online assessment is conducted. This research used a qualitative method and interviews as the main data sources. Three English teachers from UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya who teach different subjects share some experiences in using online assessment. The findings of this research indicate that those three teachers use different social networking assessment tools which are as Edmodo, Schoology, Plickers, and Peerwise. However, the researcher found similar strategies in assessing students’ online work, for example, using rubrics and giving online feedback. Meanwhile, online assessment problems in this research are a misunderstanding of instruction given, internet connection and prepare the module.