Facebook Mediating – Peer Assessment Activities In Students’ Writing At English Department Unila

Habi Septiawan, Flora Flora, Hery Yufrizal

Abstract


Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mencari tahu apa efek Facebook group close penilaian rekan pada prestasi menulis siswa, aspek mana dari tulisan yang paling meningkat setelah uji coba tindakan, apa persepsi siswa tentang perlakuan dan bagaimana siswa melanjutkan Facebook – mediasi kepenilaian rekan. Penelitian ini bersifat kuantitatif dan kualitatif. Ini menggunakan desain pretest-posttest satu – kelompok sebagai pengukuran kuantitatif. Kemudian, pengukuran kualitatif melibatkan analisis pada peningkatan siswa dari setiap aspek, persepsidan proses penilaian. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa ada peningkatan yang signifikan dalam prestasi menulis mereka setelah uji coba tindakan dan aspek yang paling banyak diperbaiki adalah konten. Ini juga menunjukkan bahwa siswa menyukai pembelajaran semacam itu, dengan kata lain, mereka memiliki persepsi positif terhadap pembelajaran menulis. Singkatnya, implementasi penilaian mediasi - rekan Facebook di kelas menulis mengarah pada elaborasi ide siswa yang lebih baik yang berakhir dengan tulisan yang lebih baik dan lebih logis.

This research aimed at finding out what the effects of Facebook closed group peer assessment on students’ writing achievement are, which aspect of writing improves the most after the treatment, what students’ perceptions of the treatment are and how students proceed Facebook-mediating to peer assessment. This research was quantitative and qualitative. It used the one-group pretest-posttest design as the quantitative measurement. Then, the qualitative measurement involved the analyses on the students' improvement of each aspect, perceptions and assessment process. The result indicates that there was a significant improvement in their writing achievement after the treatment and the aspect which improved the most was content. It also indicates that the students favored such learning, in other words, they had positive perceptions on it. In short, the implementation of Facebook mediating-peer assessment in writing class leads to students’ better idea elaboration that ends up in their better-organized and more logical writing.

Keywords: Facebook, peer assessment, writing, writing achievment.


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