Students’ challenges in working on online assessment using blog in Computer Assissted Language Learning (CALL) Class: A case study at english language education Department in UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

Assessment in classroom activity is a fundamental process required to promote learning and achievement. Online assessment is one of the types of assessment which develop in this digital era. Blog is a website for people to publish a short items. Nowadays, many teacher and lecturer use it as the online assessment tool in classroom. The purpose of this study is to identify students’ challenges in working on online assessment using blog and analyze the detail implementation of blog as online assessment in CALL class. This research was conducted using Descriptive qualitative. To answer the research questions, the researcher interview four students who are using blog as online assessment and a lecturer who use blog as online assessment in CALL class. The findings show that the challenges faced by students are categorized into five aspects namely: Language, resources, knowledge and skill, academic dishonesty, describing and designing the blog. The challenge mostly faced by students is from students’ ability in describing the material and designing the blog. It may happened because this aspect needs many ideas to design the blog and it also needs students’ ability in understanding and explaining the material uploaded to the blog. For the implementation, lecturer use it as a portfolio in final assessment.