SOCRATIVE: REAL-TIME FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT TOOL ON READINESS IN FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS LABORATORY

Abstract

The purposes of this survey research were to study the use of Socrative as a tool for formative assessment of students’ readiness in fundamental physics laboratory and to study the students’ satisfaction of using Socrative. The target group consisted of 80 freshmen, enrolling in the Fundamental Physics laboratory in the second semester of the academic year 2021 and the first semester of the academic year 2022. The research instruments consisted multiple-choice questions on Socrative, regarding 10 laboratories. Each laboratory has 10 items scoring 100 points in total, along with satisfaction survey of the usefulness of Socrative. The statistics for data analysis were average, percentage, and standard deviation. The analytic data came from the student’s responses towards 5 aspects of questionnaires, which consisted of 1. Understand of the experiment purposes 2. Understand of the concepts that related to experiments 3. Understand of identifying the variables that must be measured and calculated 4. Understand of the tool’s specification and how to use it 5. Understand of determining and analyzing the data and the students’ responses of the satisfaction survey.

From this study was found that 1. the target group has the lowest score in the fifth aspect which is the most difficult and the highest score in the first aspect which is the easiest. 2. Students’ responses to positive attitude with the average score 4.64±0.58 and 1.81±1.15 for negative attitude. That is suggested that the students were very satisfied. This study has highlighted that Socrative serves as a suitable tool for formative assessment of students’ readiness in fundamental physics laboratory.