How Effective is Online Writing Measurement? A Case Study of Using Paperrater.Com to Measure Learner’s English Writing at Binus University Jakarta  

Oleh:

Wishnoebroto ; Oktriono, Kristianus

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 2, page 1-6.
Topik: PaperRater; online grading; purposive test
Fulltext: hal 1.pdf (15.04MB)

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PaperRater is an online document checker tool that analyzes any input files in real time. This includes grammar checking, spelling checking, proofreading online and also a possibility to detect plagiarism. BINUS University Language Center uses this website to measure some of student’s work to reduce teacher’s workload and also to give opportunity for students to get a comprehensive self-feedback. Although it seems accurate, there is a growing concern among teachers especially in the reliability of the grading system between the one applied in PaperRater and BINUS University system, which is using TOEFL IBT® standard. Analyzing and evaluation these tools is to improve accuracy can lead to elevate the skills of the learner and thus an increased the capability. The writing skills identified the area to be one of the most prominences. To arrive at a solution, statistical approaches are gauged as the tools analyzed. Significant changes will be incorporated into the test, which the research subject are test takers who were selectively chosen from students who have a Paper based TOEFL score with the range of 497 – 537 to cover a wider variation of results from different level of English competencies. This paper is based on a research to analyze the accuracy of both grading results using Qualitative Purposive test to examine the significance of those both measuring techniques.

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