An English Teacher's Perception Toward the Use of Quizizz to Assess Students' Reading Comprehension

Abstract

This research was conducted by using the qualitative case study design to report the English teacher’s perception toward the use of Quizizz to assess students’ reading comprehension. This research was conducted to give information about how Quizizz support teacher in assessing students’ reading comprehension and what are the teacher’s perceptions on the use of Quizizz in assessing students’ reading comprehension In this study preliminary interview is used for determining participant. The participant of this research was an English teacher at a senior high school in Situbondo. The English teacher was selected as the research participant because the English teacher has implemented the Quizizz for about a year. In collecting the data, the researcher conducted the interview with the English teacher two times. for the first interview was conducted on 11 June 2021. Meanwhile, the second interview was conducted on 24 June 2021. In conducting the interview, the researcher came to the school and met the teacher to ask the teacher for time to do the interview. Besides, to make it easier for the the researcher to remember the information that has been explained by the teacher, the researcher recorded the interview process. The results of interviews related to the English teacher’s perception toward the use of Quizizz to assess students' reading comprehension with an English teacher at one of the high schools in Situbondo, it was found that the teacher used Quizizz more often during quiz and she used the multiple choice form. In using “Quizizz, it was also found that teacher experienced some problems but she can also overcome the problems that occurred. Some problems that are faced by teacher are: a) not all of the students have a laptop/cell phone, so it will make the students get difficulties to do and finish the quiz; b) If the quiz is set as “live” quiz, both teacher and students should be online in the same time; c) it depends on the internet signal. Besides, she also explained the ways to overcome those problems. She explained that she tried to use language laboratory, she also shared hotspot Wi-Fi from her cell phone to the students’ phone that got low signal. In addition, Quizizz also has many advantages, if the teacher used it in the learning and teaching process, the advantages that can be utilized by teachers include: a) Teacher can access Quizizz freely, and it is very easy to use; b) Teacher can take advantage from the other user. It means that if the teacher did not have any opportunity to create any quiz, the teacher can use the appropriate quizzes that have been made by other users; c) Quizizz can make students more relaxed, because it can make the test like a game; d) Quizizz can help the teacher know how fast the students can finish the quiz from the dashboard showed in the Quizizz; e) For students who have finished doing the quiz, they can try to do the quiz again once or more. It’s because Quizizz is like playing a game; f) Quizizz will show the students’ result or score from which the teacher can know which question is considered the most difficult for students to work on so that the teacher can give further explanation on that material. The result of this research is expected to be able to give meaningful contribution especially for the English teacher as a consideration in applying Quizizz as a platform to assess students’ reading comprehension. Furthermore, this research is expected to become useful for future researchers as the additional information in conducting further research dealing with the use of Quizizz to assess students’ reading comprehension.