AWKER (Academic writing checKER) prepares students for success as writers supported by LECTURER FEEDBACK AND OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT. This step-by-step, AWKER as a product of Assessment Software provides a comprehensive advice and correction to write thesis proposal, and enhances students higher order thinking to learn autonomous from lecturer feedback.
AWKER Speed up the assessment cycle, save teaching time, and support immediate student feedback with auto-scoring. The scoring is built based on two trait measures that consist of the accuracy and content of thesis proposal that is integrated with purpose and quality of academic writing assessment. Accuracy is to measure how to correct students' use of the language system is including the use of grammar, punctuation, spelling, mechanic, and vocabulary, as well as the novelty or originality of writing. Content is to measure student’s knowledge and understanding refers to the newest literature on the selected topic and to adopt the decision based on collected and analyzed data.
AWKER reflects current technology, teaching model, and classroom assessment standards in educational field through Blended learning or Hybrid learning. AWKER is equipped with Dialogic Electronic as a place for lecturer and students to give feedback and respond on assessment. Dialogic Electronic is a model of higher order thinking embodied in an electronic dialogue consisting of optimal lecturer feedback orientation and a set of assessment rules specifically designed to support formative assessment in the classroom.
AWKER is a product of the imperative to embrace technological innovation in higher education and learning in meeting the challenges of a modernized and expanded Higher Education. For student, it is providing direct and immediate feedback for the student, increase students’ digital literacy, improving student performance, and increase student engagement. For lecturer, it is reducing the time and effort of the lecturer, less paper, printing and transport used overall, and encouraging high-order thinking, supply immediate and focused feedback on students’ work, record highly detailed student learning analytics and present them to the lecturer in real-time
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
One of the active learning strategies which can help students from conductively on learning situation in the class and achieve an optimal of the study in reading is reading aloud which emphasizes on explaining and overview both form the beginning and last of learning. (Anderson, Hiebert, Scott, & Wilkenson, 1985, p. 23) argues, reading aloud was called “ the single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reason”. As teachers came to realize the ... Login To Read More
CHAPTER I
Background of the Problem
Critical Reading has became the higher level of reading comprehension for the students. It aims to find out, to understand the general information and specific information. Critical reading skills can support the students to be able to analyze, integrate, and evaluate what they are reading (Norbaiyah, 2014). If the readers are not only looking for information, but they try to ask about the information, they try to find the truth of information, then the readers are doing critical reading (Doni, Endah & Ida, 2015). Critical reading can help enhance critical language awareness. It makes readers recognize, detect, respond to, and connect the ideological purposes of diction used by the author of a given context (Sultan, Ahmad, Nurhadi, Endah, 2017). Moreover, the students hav ... Login To Read More
CHAPTER I
Critical Reading has became the higher level of reading comprehension for the students. It aims to find out, to understand the general information and specific information. Critical reading skills can support the students to be able to analyze, integrate, and evaluate what they are reading (Norbaiyah, 2014). If the readers are not only looking for information, but they try to ask about the information, they try to find the truth of information, then the readers are doing critical reading (Doni, Endah & Ida, 2015). Critical reading can help enhance critical language awareness. It makes readers recognize, detect, respond to, and connect the ideological purposes of diction used by the author of a given context ... Login To Read More