A Quasi Experimental Study on google classroom mediated peer assessment of English subject at high school in Indonesia

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume V, Issue VI, June 2021 | ISSN 2454–6186

A Quasi Experimental Study on google classroom mediated peer assessment of English subject at high school in Indonesia

Hery Yufrizal, Tuntun Sinaga, Rini Putri Malinda
University of Lampung, Indonesia

Abstract
This study reports a quasi experimental study on google classroom mediated peer assesment of English subject at High School in Indonesia. The study attempts to answer whether there is any significant difference in th students’ performances in applying the tasks. The data were elicited through students’ performances in three writing tasks. The students writing performances in three different learning tasks were compared based on the writing criteria. The results showed that there was a statistically significant difference of the students’ writing ability in three tasks of Google classroom mediated peer assessment. This result also showed that free topic was the highest score the students got in their writing. This suggests that Google Classroom mediated peer assessment facilitates the students to improve the capability of their writing skill.

Key words: google classroom, peer assessment, English, high school

1.Introduction

Peer assessment is an evaluation that requires students’ giving criticism or remark (can be both) to their companions’ writing product or performance based on the excellent criteria of writing or writing (Falchikov, 2000, p.132). It supplies the feedback and the assessment that are like professional practice among peers. Peer assessment, in which learners assess the work of other learners, is a form of learning that allows learners to provide feedback on each other’s work. According to Peng (2009), the method of peer assessment is “usually associated with group work in which students wish to separate the assessment of individual contributions from the assessment of the groups’ final products.” In teaching learning process nowadays, feedback can be provided either face-to-face or through the Internet. In the teaching and learning process, teacher needs media to convey the material easily. Teacher-cantered learning is no longer suitable for this generation so it needs to change to a more student-cantered approach, especially for students who are very diverse in their abilities (Viridi. 2017). Students are expected to be more active by using method of learning given by teacher. For example, students are divided into some group to make a discussion. They can think and share ideas to obtained new ideas. From discussion,

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