Improving Students’ Writing Participation and Achievement in an Edpuzzle-Assisted Flipped Classroom

Luki Emiliya Hidayat,Muhammad Dzulfiqar Praseno

doi:10.21776/ub.educafl.2021.004.01.01

Luki Emiliya Hidayat, Muhammad Dzulfiqar Praseno

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https://doi.org/10.21776/ub.educafl.2021.004.01.01

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Abstract

Writing is often considered as a dull but challenging skill to be learned. Hence, a learning innovation aside the conventional methods is needed to improve students’ participation and achievement. Flipped Classroom, a reverse teaching strategy was selected to overcome this problem because it involves the use of technology as a learning media that fits the characteristics of millennial students. This strategy was combined with Edpuzzle, a learning media which provides content from renowned education channels that can be customized and used freely by teachers. The combination of Flipped Classroom strategy and Edpuzzle has proven to be successful in improving students’ participation in learning activities (30.5%) as well as their achievement in writing (17%). Therefore, teachers are suggested to implement and adapt this practice in their class while considering the competence to be mastered, as well as students’ needs and characteristics.

Highlights

Students’ participation, both physically and psychologically, should occur during learning activities because it can aid students in constructing their knowledge
Findings and Discussion The results of data analysis showed that students have better achievement in their writing. This is reflected in the students’ scores which showed an increase after the application of the Edpuzzle-assisted Flipped Classroom strategy compared to the scores they obtained through the conventional learning process
The observation of students’ participation showed that the students actively participated during the learning process. This can be seen from the learning activities that they did at home, such as watching the Edpuzzle video, asking questions related to the material, having classroom discussions, and finding the solution to the problems given by the teacher

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Introduction

Students’ participation, both physically and psychologically, should occur during learning activities because it can aid students in constructing their knowledge. Students who are actively participating in the learning process will tend to be actively involved in discussions or group work which can hone their higher-order thinking skills (Freeman et al, 2014). Students may find writing activities boring and uninteresting because they are often associated with activities that are limited to the use of pen and paper only (DeVoss et al, 2010; Zakiya, 2020). Those difficulties are experienced by students of XI OTR 1 of SMKN 10 Malang, whose average success score in writing English texts is 62% and less than 70% of student learning participation. This can be done by selecting the appropriate teaching strategy, which is the Flipped Classroom strategy

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