English Review: Journal of English Education
Vol 6, No 2 (2018)

THE USE OF WEB-BASED EXAM (WBE) TO OPTIMIZE STUDENTS’ TESTING RESULT

Abdul Ngafif (Purworejo Muhammadiyah University)



Article Info

Publish Date
10 Jun 2018

Abstract

This research was conducted based on theproblems found during the mid and final test by using paper and pen test; those are the students tend to do cheating, the sleepy supervisors, the inconsistency of test time, and the risk of losing the answer sheet. Therefore, the goals of the research are; 1) to make an appropriate WBE testing system, 2) to know the cheating rate of the students, 3) to find out the effectiveness of the system, and 4) to inform the benefits that might be taken by the WBE testing system’s users. By applyingRnD research model, the researcher applies a concept called web-based exam system which uses three main tools to run the system (teacher’s laptop as the server, WBE software, and access point to communicate the server and the user). The results indicated that the system reduces the students’ cheating rate 100%. Then, from the questionnaire given, the teacherstend to likeusing WBE testing system because they can monitor the whole process of the test from his own laptop and the result of the test will be analyzed and be saved automatically in his laptop. Moreover, it reduces time consumption and paper use.Keywords: web-based exam, testing system, testing result, cheating, software

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ERJEE

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

ENGLISH REVIEW: Journal of English Education (ISSN print 2301-7554) is a peer-reviewed journal published in Indonesia by the Department of English Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, the University of Kuningan (PBI FKIP UNIKU) in collaboration with the Association of Indonesian ...