dc.description.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. | en_US |