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
Free writing is one of the important way to improve students writing skill. Writing in a second language appears to be the hardest skill to educate and to analyze, as it needs getting to know many different skill (Ningrum et al., 2013). Writing offers the students' possibility to express his thoughts, emotions, and viewpoints to others and convert them to visible manuscript.It is very crucial because it’s used in many areas of lives. In addition, it’s vital for expressing and retaining the ideas and memories.
From what has been explained above, that in writing students need released conveying ideas without being limited by something. According to Elbow and Belanoff (in Farzenah and Ami ... Login To Read More
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
Writing is an important part of language learning. It is something crucial and indispensable for the students because it can be a place to improve students creativities. In writing, the students can develop their feeling and their ideas into words. They can express their feeling freely and convey the meaning to the readers. Nunan (2003, p.88) point out that writing is an activity that the person can convey the idea in written form to explain the reader about the knowledge freely. It means that when the students write about something, they want to convey their idea about knowledge in the major field of the study. Raimes (1983, p. 76) states that in writing skill we can use our eyes, brain and our min ... Login To Read More
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
Writing is an important part of language learning. It is something crucial and indispensable for the students because it can be a place to improve students creativities. In writing, the students can develop their feeling and their ideas into words. They can express their feeling freely and convey the meaning to the readers. Nunan (2003, p.88) point out that writing is an activity that the person can convey the idea in written form to explain the reader about the knowledge freely. It means that when the students write about something, they want to convey their idea about knowledge in the major field of the study. Raimes (1983, p. 76) states that in writing skill we can use our eyes, brain and our min ... Login To Read More