“Wegoquiz” to Improve Students’ English Achievement

Pandemic began to enter this country around March 2020. Since then, almost all teachers, students and schools were shocked by the very sudden change. Online learning becomes one of the solution in learning.However, many students could not follow this online learning well. Therefore, the teachers have to be very careful in choosing and planning online learning media for teaching otherwise the result would be dissatisfying. This paper reports a best practice on the use of “wegoquiz”media in improving the students’ English achievement at SMAN 1 Batang Anai. It is a combination of three media in online learning. The three media are learning website with google site, google meet and quizziz. These media were used to the third year students in the first semester of 2021/2022 academic year. The result shows that by using “wegoquiz”,the students’engagement in learning process is improving a lot. They learned using the website, they attended google meet and they did the quizziz several times. As a result, their English achievement is also improving significantly.

Implementasi Sistem Penunjang Keputusan Dalam Pemilihan Calon Team Leader Menggunakan Metode Simple Additive Weighting (SAW)

So far, the selection of prospective Team Leaders in companies is still manual so it is not in accordance with the standard operating procedures for selection. The system designed in this study aims to ensure the accuracy of HRD in selecting candidates Team Leader to match the expectations of the company itself. From the comparison of the methods that have been carried out by researchers, themethod is the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW)right choice and the researcher will implement it with the provisions of the criteria that have been set including, Communication, Problem Solving Skills, Time Management, English, Achievement. To build this system, researchers used the programming languages PHP and MySQL. From the calculation of the level of accuracy, manual calculations get a percentage of 86.6% while the calculation with the proposed system achieves the maximum result with a percentage of 100%. It can be concluded that the calculation with the system is able to determine a suitable candidate as a Team Leader very accurately and on target.

Perception Of Students In Using Youtube On Learning English

The aim of this research was to know perception of watching English movie on Youtube at the second semester the second semester of English department Islamic University of Kalimantan of the 2018/2019 academic year. The subject of this research is the students of class regular A. The instrument used in the data collection was a questionnaire that consist of two part, the first part to find out the students who ever watched English movie on Youtube and the second part to know students’ perception use of watching English movie on Youtube. The data were analyzed using statistical and shown in tables of frequency.The finding showed that by watching English movie on Youtube English movie has an influenced for those students in improving their English achievement, then help them to learn new vocabulary and could be one of the effective media in learning English Achievement. Keywords : learning english, English movie, Youtube

Family and School Condition Toward Student English Achievement

The school environment is also an inhibiting factor for students. For example, the way the lesson is presented is not good. In addition, there are still many parents who ignore the education of their students. This has an impact on students' low English skills. This study aims to analyze family and school conditions on students' English achievement. This research is a correlational study. The research subjects were all students of the class with 24 students. The method used to collect data is observation, interviews, and questionnaires. The instrument used in data collection is a questionnaire. The technique used to analyze the data is descriptive qualitative statistics, and quantitative. The study results are that family conditions have a positive effect on learning achievement in learning English. This shows that when family conditions improve, student achievement will also increase. Partial test (t-test) obtained t count variable influence of family conditions = 6.607 so that Ha X1 against Y is accepted. Variable influence of school conditions t count = 3.019 so that Ha X2 to Y is accepted. The practical contribution of family conditions is 21.316%, school conditions are 39.678%. The key is that there is a simultaneous influence of family and school conditions on learning English subjects.

Assessing the validity of an IAU General English Achievement Test through hybridizing differential item functioning and differential distractor functioning

The current study sought to examine the validity of a General English Achievement Test (GEAT), administered to university students in the fall semester of 2018–2019 academic year, by hybridizing differential information (DIF) and differential distractor function (DDF) analytical models. Using a purposive sampling method, from the target population of undergraduate students studying in different disciplines at Islamic Azad University (IAU), (Isfahan branch), a sample of 835 students taking GEAT were selected. The 60-item multiple-choice test comprised four sub-sections; namely, vocabulary, grammar, cloze test, and reading comprehension. The students’ test scores served as the targeted data and the validity of the test was examined through the application of Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel (CMH) and multinomial log-linear regression models for detecting DIF and DDF, respectively. To account for the assumption of uni-dimensionality, the test sub-sections were analyzed independently. Furthermore, the assumption of local independence was checked based on correlational analysis and no extreme values were observed. The results of the study identified five moderate-level DIF items and one DDF item signaling an adverse effect on test fairness due to the existing biased items. Notably, these findings may have important implications for both language policymakers and test developers.