Vol 9 No 1 (2015): Contemporary Issues in Online Teaching and Learning

Novi Trilisiana, Henny Riska Pratiwi, Hartoto Hartoto
Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta

Abstract

This research aims at (1) producing a product of online based Authentic Assesment Information System in Yogyakarta using Google Apps, and (2) understanding the appropriateness of the product. The produced product is called ‘Authentic Assesment Information System’. The product functions on helping teachers documenting the resultsofstudent’sauthenticassesment. Further use of the product for teachers includes the ability of using this product to inform the parents about the students’ learning development. Besides, parents are able to consult the teacher about their children through‘Parent’sContact’feature.This research was conducted through Research & Development of Alessi & Trollip model. This model has three attributes (standard, ongoing evaluation and project management) and three phases (planning, design, and development). At the planning and design, ongoing evaluation was conducted until the preliminary product was created. At the development phase, validation by the media and content experts (alpha testing) was conducted and then the revision to the preliminary product was conducted. The next phase included the beta testing conducted by 6 teachers and 5 parents as the user candidates. The product can be accessed at http://spa.edutech.web.id. The validity of the product was assessed and resulted in ‘very good’ category in alpha testing, ‘good’ category at beta
testing by the teachers ,and ‘verygood’ category by parents. It is concluded that this product is appropriate to be used based on the quality evaluation instrument of software and users test (usability testing).