Story of Participant 2 Text description

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 ” P1-36 Then in the SMK Negeri 1 Yogyakarta, the school facilities also had been old and out of date.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 42 CBT because not all schools in Indonesia had computer laboratory. There were also some schools in rural area that still could not access the internet. “…very ideal, but it doesn’t mean that it can be implemented nationally, because not all area in Indonesia can access internet. If they can access only use chip card like in mobile phone, it is not enough. ” P2-33 In sum, the facilities were important aspects in the implementation of computer based test. Participant 2 also said that was the government ’s responsibility to develop the schools’ facilities in Indonesia to make computer based national examination could be implemented for more schools in Indonesia. The facilities like internet also help schools in touch with information from outside area. Then, the facilities like LCD and computer in the classroom also helped the teachers provided interesting learning process for the students. Schools’ facilities were influence the time in conducting English computer based national examination.

2. Standardization

National examination become national standardization for each level of education, started from Elementary School, Junior High School, and Senior High School. National examination was needed to give national education standard. Participant 2 and participant 3 stated that national examination was still needed; it was used to measure students’ ability with national standard. While based on participant 1’s opinion there must be national examination, without it there was no standard in our country. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI