Students’ perception of e-Assessment for English as a Foreign Language in Higher Education

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify students’ perceptions of e-assessment in higher education. The respondents of this survey study are students of English Education in one of the Islamic Private Universities in Yogyakarta. This study uses a Quantitative approach in the form of a survey study. The instruments for data collection is The Model of Acceptance and Usage of e-assessment (MAUE) questionnaire that consists of 40 items and is divided into 8 domains (awareness domain, compatibility domain, perceive of useful domain, perceive of ease domain, peer influence, and superior influence, self-efficacy, resource facilitation, and IT Support domain) delivered using google form. This instrument is the result of the development of the technology acceptance model (TAM) from Davis (1985) by Sadaf et al (2012) and then adopted by Kundu & Bej (2021). The result shows that students have a high perception of the IT support domain (M = 4.29 & SD=0.77), compatibility domain (M = 4.1 & SD=0.74), and self-efficacy domain (M = 4.05 & SD=0.75). The lowest domain is peer influence and the superior influence domain is (M = 3.51) and (SD=1.09). This study implies that students should embrace their perspective on e-assessment.