Abstract—Online-based distance learning during the pandemic has an impact on the teacher's time to students tends to decrease. This triggers a decrease in students' learning motivation because learning is carried out remotely. This study aims to prove the effect of mobile assessment on the learning motivation of elementary school students in online learning. This study is a quantitative study with a pretest-posttest design. The subjects of this study were elementary school students in Class V. The sample used was 53 students. The selection of research subjects is based on a random sample technique. The research data were collected through a questionnaire designed to measure students' learning motivation. The data collected from both groups were analyzed using paired sample t-test. This study concludes that mobile assessment has a significant positive effect on the learning motivation of elementary school students in online learning. There is an increase in students' learning motivation after the application of mobile assessment in learning activities in online classes.
Index Terms—Elementary school students, learning motivation, mobile assessment.
Herwin Herwin and Riana Nurhayati are with the Faculty of Education, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia (e-mail: herwin89@uny.ac.id, riana_nurhayati@uny.ac.id).
Shakila Che Dahalan is with the Federal Government Administrative Centre, Putrajaya, Malaysia (e-mail: shakila1212@gmail.com).
Cite: Herwin Herwin, Riana Nurhayati, and Shakila Che Dahalan, "Mobile Assessment to Improve Learning Motivation of Elementary School Students in Online Learning," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 436-442, 2022.
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