ONLINE ASSESSMENT ON STUDENTS’ WRITING RECOUNT TEXT: TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVES

This study attempted to investigate what were the kinds of online assessment for
students writing recount text used by the teachers and to analyze how were the
teachers’ perspectives on the online assessment on students’ writing recount text.
A descriptive qualitative design was used in this study. The data were collected by
doing deep interview with two English teachers of SMA Negeri 6 Medan. The
result of this study found that the teachers used Google Classroom as the online
assessment. And based on the theory of Remmi (2020), the teachers’ have two
perspectives on the online assessment, namely: affordances and constraints.
Furthermore, the teachers faced some obstacles while conducting the online
assessment, namely: unstable internet connection, lack of facilities, and lack of
skills. Meanwhile for the affordances, the teachers stated that online assessment
was easy to use and improve teaching practice. Regarding to those findings, the
teachers’ perspective on the online assessment on students’ writing recount text in
SMA Negeri 6 Medan were categorized into constraints.