The implementation of online assessment at SMA Hang Tuah 5 Sidoarjo

Assessment has an important role in the success of teaching learning process. It is used to identify the students’ understanding of the learnt material. During pandemic, teacher are forced to do the teaching online including doing assessment of what students learn. This research is aimed to identify teacher’s way in implementing online assessment at secondary schools. This research used qualitative approach to find out the implementation of online assessment that teacher use in their practices and the challenges they may have whe implementing the assessment by interviewing the English teacher. The study found that teacher did several steps in implementing online assessment, namely preparing the application for online assessment, choosing right technology for assessment, recalling the materials, giving students instructions on how the test, doing pair group assessment, evaluating the test and giving the feedback. Also, unfamiliar with the use of technology, internet connection, and understanding the students’ character were recognize as the challenges of online assessment. The study highlights that it is important for teacher to prepare the online assessment carefully with the appropriate technology and ways to enable students participate the assessment effectively. The students may be reluctant to do the test particularly if they have poor internet connection and unfamiliarity with the application use as found in this study.