38 improve students’ skill in computer. It would help students when they already had
job, besides their major skill they also would be able to operate computer. She said that in this era the students had to have skill in computer, so they would not
become ancient in this modern era.
3. Story of Participant 3
He was an English teacher in SMK Negeri 1 Yogyakarta. He graduated from Sanata Dharma University. He has already taught in SMK Negeri 1 for more
than fifteen years. He said that English was a foundation for students to find job and continue their education. He also said that in AEC era nowadays, English that
they master was plus value. At the beginning he did not really like to be a teacher. He liked becoming
private worker or other better than a teacher. He said that he ever applied for a job in Singapore Airline and at that time he was called for interview, but he could not
come because he still had contract as English teacher in Yogyakarta. There were people who said that he had personality which suitable to become a teacher. Then
he thought that maybe it was right, so he tried becoming a teacher. He also said if he had to become a teacher not civil state worker, may be teacher in a course
institution. Shortly, not civil state worker, but there was someone who brought him to become state worker and gradually he felt comfortable as civil state
worker, at last there was no problem for him. In the classroom he also used laptop and internet as teaching media. Based
on his opinion laptop and internet were very helpful. He could show many things PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
39 that students cannot see in Indonesia. He could browse it in internet and show
them about many things that maybe strange for them. He also said that using laptop was more efficient, he could display picture or video directly from laptop.
However, he said that he never used laptop, email, or via internet for learning evaluation. Based on his opinion it was not effective because they have not had
the program for this yet, and if he took from internet he thought there was no material that was exactly suitable. So, he preferred using manual method. He also
agreed with national examination. Based on his opinion there must be national examination, without it there was no standard in our country. He also said that
measuring was important, we needed to know nationally whether we had been successful in teaching or not. Although he did not use computer based test in the
classroom but he agreed with the use of computer based test in national examination. He said that it was very ideal method, but it did not mean that it
could be implemented nationally, because not all Indonesia area could access internet. Based on his opinion computer based test gave many advantages for the
schools, students, teachers and also government.
B. Interpretation
This part elaborated the main themes that appeared from the data gathered. There were four themes which were mostly showed by the participants from their
personal experienced in-depth-interviews. Those were facilitation, effective testing method, standardization, and opportunity.
1. Facilities
40 The facilities have important role in computer based test. English
computer based national examination cannot be held if there were not enough facilities in the schools. The schools have to have computer laboratory, good
internet access, and stable electricity in order to conduct computer based test. The English teachers in SMK Negeri 2 Yogyakarta, SMK Negeri 1 Yogyakarta and
SMK Negeri 5 Yogyakarta as the participants in this research, had already familiar with computer and internet in the process of learning. They used this
schools’ facilities to improve the students interest during the learning process. It was based on participant 3
’s view which was proved when she used computer as a teaching media in the classroom. She also stated that computer and LCD also
helped her to give interesting learning process for students. “…of course it is helpful miss, with the use of media like computer and
LCD in the classroom the students more concentrate in learning process. Then if we use picture or songs in learning process, the students will not
be bored. Moreover, when we teach in the afternoon when the students have already tired, the use of media increase the students’ learning
motivation because it is more interesting than if we just teach and explain the material in front of schools manually.
” P3-8 Although the participants’ schools have already had enough facilities to
conduct computer based test, the facilities that the schools had to conduct English national examination computer based test still was not equal with the number of
students. So, they had to made schedule for the students. The limitation of facility in the implementation of English computer based national examination was stated
by participant 1 who told that the number of the students in her schools is not equal with the computer that they have.
41 “… The number of the students in this school is very high. There are 23
classes for about 700 students but the school has limited number of computers…” P1-36
Then, to solve that problem the students were divided into some groups and they had to alternate because the computers in schools did not enough if they
did it together at the same time. It became one of the weaknesses of the English computer based national examination implementation in Yogyakarta. Participant 3
stated that it was pity that students have to divided into morning and afternoon shift.
“But the time becomes so long. It’s pity that students have to be divided into morning and afternoon shift. Then they also need longer time
because with CBT they only can do one subject in one day, while with paper-pencil based test students can do two subjects in one day.
” P3-43
“The weakness is the limited facility; it wastes students’ time because they have to do session by session.
” P1-36 Then in the SMK Negeri 1 Yogyakarta, the school facilities also had been
old and out of date. They still used tube monitor while some schools had already used LCD. It was stated by participant 2, he also stated that although the
computers were still useable, according to him the computers needed to be replaced.
“…but this school is state school which is handled by regional government. Our equipment have been old, it is government’s
resposibility to replace with the new one, isn’t it?”P2-41 Participant 2 also viewed that although computer based national
examination had many advantages for the schools, students, teachers and government, the facilities also became the reason for other schools could not use
