Investigating the Speaking Examiners’ Challenges in a Synchronous Online Test

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10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_4How to use a DOI?

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Challenges; speaking examiners; online speaking test

Abstract

This study examines the challenges faced by speaking examiners in assessing students’ speaking performance conducted virtually. Data were collected by distributing questionnaires to speaking examiners to identify challenges they faced in administering the online speaking test. A focus group discussion to twenty five examiners were also conducted where they shared further about the challenges and how they dealt with the challenges. To confirm this, a questionnaire was distributed to 197 online speaking test takers. The study showed that the challenges the examiners faced were related to the poor internet connection and the technical problems from the participants’ ends. These two factors caused some information delivered by the participants or examiners to be unclear or missing. This led the participants to ask the examiners to repeat some questions or vice versa. Although these challenges happened once in a while, they could interrupt the flow of the test itself and distract the focus of both examiners and participants. To deal with these two challenges, the examiners usually asked the participants to change their network or devices. There was this concern regarding the scoring of the participants’ speaking performance if the troubles happened, but most examiners stated that the connection and technical problems did not really interfere with the scoring because they could identify the participants’ speaking performance from their overall answers. Based on these findings, the institution could add some steps for device readiness check prior to the test to minimize the occurrence of the connection or technical problems that might inhibit the assessment.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Anistya Rachmawati
AU  - Pebby Ardin
AU  - Retno Hendryanti
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/05/18
TI  - Investigating the Speaking Examiners’ Challenges in a Synchronous Online Test
BT  - Proceedings of the 20th AsiaTEFL-68th TEFLIN-5th iNELTAL Conference (ASIATEFL 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 22
EP  - 30
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_4
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_4
ID  - Rachmawati2023
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