Exploring teacher’s creativity in designing online assessment for EFL learners

Assessment is an essential process to identify students’ progress of the learnt materials. Nowadays, with the advancement of technology, teachers have a broader opportunity to assess students’ progress and understanding of materials online. The purpose of this study is to explore teachers’ creativity in designing online assessment and to identify the elements of creativity emerge in their creative practices when doing online assessment. To answer the issue, this research used qualitative design by interviewing four EFL university teachers. The finding showed that tecahers created online assessment using certain learning management systems (LMS). They chose certain platforms by considering the features of the platform that could assist them constructing creative online assessment. Eventhough teachers could design oline assessment, they still found some challenges which could inhibit their creativity such as the knowledge in operating LMS, preparation time, content and layout of the tasks, and academic dishonesty. Other challenges of applying online assessment identified were poor internet connection, technical problems, and free access to the platform. The finding highlights that teachers’ creativity is important in constructing creative online assessment by utulizing available LMS for their assessment tool. In dong this, they require to choose the appropriate tools to assist them doing online assessment as well as achieve the teaching goals.