The Implementation of KKNI based Curriculum Assessment using

Social Media

Muhammad Natsir

, Rita Suswati

, Muhammad Rizal

, Fathul Djannah

and Wahyu Tri Atmojo

Department of English Literature, Universitas Negeri Medan

Department of English Education, Universitas Negeri Medan

Department of Syariah, Universitas Islam Negeri Medan

Department of Law, Universitas Panca Budi Medan

Department of visual Art, Universitas Negeri Medan

Keywords: Indonesia National Qualification Framework (KKNI) Curriculum, Social Media, Assessment Material

Abstract: Social media has became a new way of communication, not only for the intention of social purposes but

also for educational need. There are many advantages and disadvantages using social media as the

instrument to assess the students. The aim of this research is to investigate how useful social media as

Facebook, Instagram and Whatapp application in developing students’ competences in writing skill. The

principles of KKNI is to assess an individual in some aspects; knowledge, competences, and skills in

accordance with the learning achievement obtained through educational process which is shown by certain

descriptor levels. For the second semester students of English Department of UNIMED. They have to

submit all kinds of assessments from Daily Task Report, Critical Book Report, Journal Review, Mini

Research, Idea Engineering and Final Project. All these tasks have their own conditions and difficulties to

complete. The implementation of using social media as students’ assessment hasn’t been optimal yet, since

it still a new idea in education. The population of this research were the students of 2017/2018 academic

year who consist of 80 students from 2 classes, educational and literature program who have already studied

basic writing and reading. The method used is Research and Development (R&D) Method by Borg & Gall,

with the Linkert Scale Data. Questionnaire used to get students perception on how effective social media as

their KKNI based curriculum assessments. The result shown that the factors influencing the implementation

of social media as students assessment are not only the design, material, and selected text, but also the

lecturers competence, students’ need, and facilities that support the achievement of this purposes. Further, it

is expected to do more research on this matter.

1 INTRODUCTION

Due to the globalization of the world, technology

has affect all aspects in life, starting from

communication for social intention and now to

educational purposes. UNIMED as one of the

leading educational University in Medan also have

to keep up with the students’ need. The massive use

of smart phones, iPads and other portable devices

has influenced the way teacher assess their students.

From all the applications that are installed in a

smartphone, the used of Facebook, WhatsApps, and

Instagram, are the most applicable icon for English

department students, since everyone communicate

and having social life through it. “Social connections

affect so many aspects of our lives that our argument

that they can also be applied to education and

learning should be no surprise” (King and Sen,

2013, p.622). The role of emerging social media

may offer new opportunities to enhance the teaching

and learning experiences. Zepke and Leach (2010).

Indonesia National Qualification Framework

(KKNI) Curriculum has a goal to shape the students

into an independent and qualified person to the

stakeholders, society and nation. The classification

of tasks in KKNI based curriculum based on the

level of the students. The bachelor degree student

Natsir, M., Suswati, R., Rizal, M., Djannah, F. and Atmojo, W.

The Implementation of KKNI based Curriculum Assessment using Social Media.

DOI: 10.5220/0009492800580064

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level for academic years 2017/2018, should submit

six kinds of tasks, which are daily task, critical book

review, journal report, idea engineering, mini

research and final project.

Each task has its own procedure to follow. Daily

task is an assessment to do individually. After the

lecturer has finished in giving one topic, the student

is being asked to work on a task. It could be an

essay, a summary or other.

The second task is critical book review, before

the students were divided into small groups and find

some references to read. The book should related to

the writing topic. The lecturer will choose the best

book for each group to review. Using social media,

the students can access some good references by

using FB or WA to share about the book that’s going

to be reviewed.

The third task is journal report, now students can

access the article from the IG, FB or WA, they don’t

need to copy or download a complete journal any

longer, they just need an url sites such as

https://unimed.ac.id.,

The fourth task is idea engineering, in this task

each student demanded to conclude his theory of a

topic that has been discussed.

The fifth task is mini research. The lecturer will

grouping the students into small groups, next each

group should write three problems of the research. It

could be a problem in their society, educational

problem (based on their own experiences), or the

current problem about language.

The last task is the final project. Students are

directed to held an exhibition, in intention of

displaying their writing product. It could be in the

form of English corner, competition or reviewing the

native speaker/ commercial tenants. All these tasks

will shape the students attitude and character to

become a better and independent person with the

adequate language skills.

Writing skill is one of the skills that the English

department students program should be mastered.

Since 2017, the curriculum that has been applied in

university is Indonesia National Qualification

Framework (KKNI) Curriculum. The purpose of this

curriculum is to know the students’ ability in

knowledge, competences, and skills in accordance

with the learning achievement obtained through

educational process. As mentioned before for the

bachelor degree, there are six tasks to submit. These

six tasks should be integrated in the English skills.

Since KKNI based curriculum applied in English

department program in UNIMED, students of

academic year 2016 have the new subject. The new

subject matters is the language skills in particular.

The four skills have been divided into oral and

productive skills. While speaking and listening is the

oral skills, writing and reading become the

productive skills. Teaching writing through a text

need a lot of preparations. The interactive text isnot

enough to assess the students’ competences. The use

of social media is considered as one of the solution

to the students’ need, since they get easily bored and

they didn’t have much attention in working on their

task, so the result is not as expected. One of the

factor is the content of the assessment.

Conventional teaching using handout and

textbook full of narration cause the lack of

motivation in learning. Motivation and perception

will influence students to engage in interactive

learning. “Students, often referred to as digital

natives (Prensky, 2001 as cited in Noh, Razak,

Alias, Siraj, Jamil & Hussin; 2013), have spent most

of their time on computers, game consoles, digital

music players, video cameras, cell phones, as well as

the Web itself”(Jovanovic, Chiong, and Weise,

2012, p39 as cited in Noh, Razak, Alias, Siraj, Jamil

& Hussin; 2013)`.

Students motivation and interest become an issue

to overcome in education. The social media can be

the perfect answer to it because networking provides

them with more freedom access and a way to

express their feelings (Shambare et al., 2011, as

cited in Noh, Razak, Alias, Siraj, Jamil & Hussin;

2013). It’s because technology has changed the way

we communicate with each other, the way we use

language, the way we read and write, the way we

think and the way we teach (Crystal, 2008a, 2008b;

Johnson, 2009; O'Brien & Sharber, 2008 as cited in

Noh, Razak, Alias, Siraj, Jamil & Hussin; 2013).

The following tables present the students’ view

about the target goal and their demand of the target

situation.

Table 1: The Goal of Learning English

Questions Items N F Percent

age (%)

s English

anguage

tudents, why

o you need

o learn

“

Written

anguage

kills?

Campus

demand

The

importance

of English

now

0 3

Happy to

learn

English

Parents’

will 0

What kinds

of skill are

used very

often in the

Reading

Writing

0 4

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class? Listening

Speaking

0 2

Based on the preliminary data of second semester

of English department students, it was found that

writing is the most difficult subject in learning

English. The reasons why they found it so difficult

in writing or developing their ideas is because they

being limited by certain text which really an old

issue. They don’t enjoy of reading the the text nor

summarizing it. The students are quite difficult to

explore the ideas since it was limited by certain

topic.

The second question of the result stated that

students understand the useful of English as

International communication. They need English to

help them getting the right occupation. Although

UNIMED is the university of teaching but the

scholars who choose to be the students in UNIMED

can apply a different job than being a teacher.

Students of english literature program have the

interest of working in various field, such as banking,

secretary, receptionist, etc, because literature

program has the subject of English for Spesific

Purposes (ESP). The students understand by

mastering English proficiency to the advance level,

not only fluency in speaking but also good in writing

will help them in developing their skill in a working

place.

In addition the students also want more attractive

material in writing class with a lot of current issues

as the topic and colorful text and assessment. The

use of social media for youngsters fulfill they need

in learning.

Table 2: The students’ expectation in studying

English.

What kinds of

materials that

you prefer?

The

ast

form text in

black &

white

The real

situation

text that

deal with

kids these

Both

0 2

Do you think

social media

will help you

improve your

writing

Yes

0 0

ou think Yes 40

the learning

materials used

now be able to

answer

thestudents’

need?

0 %

0 2

Investigations on media social has been done

over a decade. Previous research on material, media

and assessment has been investigated by Noh,

Nurulrabihah Mat., Razak, Siti Hajar Abd, Alias,

Norlidah., Jamil, Saedah Siraj, Mohd Ridhuan Mohd

& Husin, Zaharah,. 2013. Usage of Facebook: The

Future Impact Of Curriculum Implementation On

Students In Malaysia and Alabdulkareem, Saleh

Abdullah,. 2014. Exploring the Use and the Impacts

of Social Media on Teaching and Learning Science

in Saudi.

Each of these research shown that in future the

social media will be implemented in the curriculum,

not only the design of material but also the way to

assess the students’ ability. Its benefit not only for

the social communication purposes only but also for

the outcomes of students’ achievement in learning.

The aim of this study is try to answer some

research questions; (1) What kinds of social media

that appropriate to students assessment? (2) How is

the implication of using social media as the tasks for

KKNI Based Curriculum?

2 RESEARCH METHOD

The method used to investigate the result of English

department students’ assessment, academic year

2017/2018 under the topic writing is Reseach and

Development method (R&D) by Borg & Gall,

1983:775. Ten procedures should be followed in

order to gain the best tasks for the students’ need.

Sumadinata (2010) stated, if we followed all the

stages, it will produced the perfect product.

Figure 1: R&D Method (Borg & Gall, 1983:775)

Procedures in R&D Method; (1) research and

information gathering, (2) planning, (3) develop

primary form of the product, (4) preliminary field,

(5) operational field testing, (6) operational product

revision, (7) main field testing, (8) main product

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revision, (9) final product revision, and (10)

dissemination and implementation.

The first research question is to find the kind of

social media mostly used among the students tried to

be answer with the questionnaire of the students’

expectation in studying English (table 1). 80

students have their own applications that dominantly

use in daily basis. The result of the questionnaire

was formed in the Likert-scale. The questionnaire

adapted from Badan Standar Nasional Pendidikan

and consist of four aspect. They are: content

appropriateness, language appropriateness, present

appropriateness, and layout appropriateness.

Designing Writing Assessment

After administering the needs analysis, the

appropriate English writing assessment ready to

designed. Next, the writer selected the material of

the assessment limited only to the used of FB, Ig and

WA application as the instruments of the data. The

researcher only choose some good issues to be the

references of the six KKNI based curriculum tasks.

Here the example of the text used as the

assessment of the students.

Figure 2: Example assessment of the students

source:www.instagram.com/barackobama. Retrieved

Oct 22th , 2018.

The design of students’ assessment through

social media for English students of State University

of be developed into several parts. For reading part,

we can ask the students to read the text and

underline the difficult words in order to compose

idea engineering, and as for writing, we can ask

them to write one good composition to indicate the

appreciation of Indonesian heroes, from the

revolution era or heroes in their life. The goal of this

assessment is to let students creativity develop

regardless their grammatical competences.Its a

crucial process to meet the students abilities in

improving their writing skill as a beginner.

The result of test 1 will be used as the materials

revision. Two lecturers who are expect in matter of

writing and assessment will be point out to make the

revision.

Validating New Materials by Expert

The next procedure after the first draft of the

assessment materials was developed, the tests were

evaluated by the validators to confirm if the tests

had been appropriate or not. The evaluation was

consists of questionnaires and interviews from

students and lecturers.

The suggestion from the validators were

demanded to add more inspiring text from the social

media, from Indonesia and abroad, since we have a

lot powerful and inspiring people in the country, like

Sri Mulyani, B. J Habibie, etc.

Another input from the validators, the

assessments materials can be used as a standard test

of writing class in the same level.

Revising New Materials Based on Experts’

Suggestions

After the first revision, the assessment materials had

been added more text with the most current issues

that the students need to discuss and make a review

as their next task. The purpose of this procedure is to

get the appropriate assessment materials to the

students need of academic years 2017/2018 who still

learning the basic reading and writing. They still

learning the simple word with the simple meaning,

so it is suggested at the end of each topic, the

lecturer put the glossary contain the new terms or

difficult words that the students can learn and use it

in a sentence. The additional text taken from Sri

Mulyani, B. J. Habibie and Ratna Sarumpaet

Instagram or Facebook, since now they are the most

inspiring people for students.

Next, students were tested for the second time,

with the new materials and the new topic.

Revised-Developing New Materials (Final

Product)

There were somenew developed writing materials

that adequate to the students’ need. There are two

tests which were distributed to the students. The first

test is preliminary test which consist of the

assessment from the hand out and it is not related to

the social media by giving the opinion about those

thesis statements given. The second test is taken

from FB and Ig which selected topic that related to

the writing skill. To assess the students’ paper is by

implementing the writing score of British Council.

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Table 3: Students’ Difficulties in Reading and

Writing Activity

Question Items N F Perce

(%)

What difficul

you find whe

read the E

text?

The text is

uninteresting

to be read so

we are difficult

to write it

20 9 45%

The text is

update becaus

unsuitable

students’ nee

this era

It is found

unfamiliar

vocabularies a

ictures

monotonous

20 11 55%

Based on the table in the writing and reading

activity 55% of the students have difficulty of

guessing the unfamiliar words with the materials

provided in the book consist of the monotonous

pictures (black & white). While 45% of the students

have to overcomes their motivation in learning

because of uninteresting texts. Some of them even

found it really difficult to rewrite or answer based on

the text given. It is also the problem of the second

question. The effect of social media to six tasks of

KKNI based curriculum is a good way to solve

another obstacles in writing which is lack of

vocabularies.

3 RESULT AND DISCUSSION

The research findings can be based on the main data

of each independent variable on the students’ writing

competences, as the aim of the research question is

to find out the implementation of KKNI based

curriculum assessment using social media. The

result shown that there is a significant change in

students’ achievement after using FB, IG and WA as

their tasks material

Materials is anything which is used to help

language learners to learn, as stated by Tomlinson;

2012. The form of materials can be anything. Is it a

CD, handout, textbook or the latest one is e-learning.

Beside giving text to the writing class from social

media, lecturers can also upgrade their technologies

competences in e-learning. Giving topic, discuss a

topic, assess the students online. The only problem

to this matter is the internet access. University

should supply the gigantic wi-fi access to make sure

the learning process runs well.

The English department students who have tested

with the social media materials have the different

result than the students who haven’t got the social

media text as their assessment. Its indicating that the

development of KKNI based curriculum material

involving not only the syllabus but also the students’

need. Further, Tomlinson (2001: 66) stated

materials development is both a field of study and a

practical undertaking. As a field, it studies the

principles and procedures of the designed,

implementation and evaluation of language teaching

materials. Materials developers might write anything

from the textbooks, tell stories, and bring

advertisements into the classroom, express an

opinion, provide samples of language use or even

read a poem aloud in front of the classroom.

The students results shown that the materials

provided by the lecturers to learn in class was not

the current issues, late post, conventional and a bit

boring. The kind of assessments that has been tested

from time to time, no revision and no up dating data.

It was derived from the main factor which is the

inappropriate materials to the students’ need and

lecturers’ method of teaching is still conventional.

The way lecturers giving assessment really decide

the result of the students’ competences. In terms of

assessment materials, some students found it

difficult to develop the idea in writing, because of

bored materials and an old issues. Furthermore,

some students lacked motivation and enthusiasm to

learn reading & writing because of the gap in

comprehend the text and design of teaching (table 1)

The following questionnaire will try to answer

the effect of social media to their six KKNI based

curriculum tasks

Table 4: The Importance of Social Media in KKNI

Based Curriculum

Questions Items N F Percenta

ge (%)

Have you ever

found the

materials

based on the

social media?

Yes 20

90%

No 20 2 10%

What kind of

social media is

it found in the

materials you

have found?

IG 20 8 40%

FB 20 3 15%

WA 20 7 35%

From those

social medias,

IG 20 9 45%

FB 20 4 20%

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which one do

you think can

be develop the

reading and

writing skill?

WA 20 7 35%

According to the table, most of the students (about

90%) stated that the existence of social media based

in the materials was very helpful to the students in

order to understand the materials that consist of

current issues. The rest was 10% of the students who

had opinion that they never found the materials

related to the their life, so they did not know how to

use and develop the materials.

Furthermore, the type of social media that can be

implemented as the assessment of KKNI based

curriculum is Instagram consisting of 40% and 45%.

While FB and WA were used to chat about anything.

Students usually discuss the topic, as a question or

consult each other using WA application, since they

can classifying the group of each topic in WA, so

they don’t have to meet personally and spare certain

time to talk about the task, they can talk privately in

WA by vc (video call) application in WA.

FB used to announce of a task. The class monitor

was being asked by the lecturer to inform anything

related to the topic. Media as FB and WA is the

application that fit to this matter.

The second and last question in table 4 indicating

that the students rarely had a text based on social

media used as the material and tasks at the same

time.

The chart below also justify the significant result

by using social media as the assessment materials in

writing class.

Figure 3: The Percentage of Number of Students’

score in Writing

According to the figure of students’ percentage in

writing assessment, it shows there’s a a significant

change increasingly happens in test 2 when the text

is taken from social media with the appropriate topic

of the current issues about politics, finance or

education. All the tests taken from inspiring people

who in charge in certain matters as, Presidents,

Politician, Public Figures, Social Volunteers,

Society or even Youngsters. The writer also took

several story from children, parents, or others who

have to struggle in healing them selves as drug

abuser, autism, dyslexia, cancer, etc. Those topics

will be selected and compiled to be the students

assessment materials that fit to their need.

The figure also shown that the difference of

average is 20 point between test 1 and test 2. Its

quite a big percentage between the test with or

without the use of social media.

The design of assessment for writing class of

English department students academic years

2017/2018 adequate with the goal of KKNI based

curriculum to improve the students’ independency in

learning. The students will be enjoy in working on

their tasks that consist of social media which

selected of current issues as the topic. Since it is the

recent matter, they will understand the issues that

have been discussed. They also have a chance to

write their opinion about each topic.

The achievement process in this research should

be supported by team teaching, students, syllabus,

stakeholders, method, material and the internet

facilities.

It can be assumed as the answers of the research

questions; (1) Instagram is the most usage

application for English department students of

UNIMED, as the second research question; (2) the

result shown the using of social media as the tasks

for KKNI Based Curriculum has a significant

improvement in students’ writing competences.

Although social media can be used to ease the

gap among the students, but it also has the weakness.

The unlimited access of internet can be a disaster if

the lecturer can’t be a smart facilitator to select the

appropriate material. Further, it is still needed more

discussion through research, workshop, or team

teaching discussion to used social media as the

assessment material to be a scaffolding to the

development of educational system

4 CONCLUSIONS

Social media has been a world global issue these

day. The use of social media has been transforming

from its original purpose. Social media as FB, IG

and WA no longer used as the social interaction

purposes only but has became the materials in

learning.

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This study tried to investigate the kind of social

media dominantly used by the students as their

applications in working on the assessment. The other

intention of this research is to know how is the

implementation of social media as the assessment of

the six tasks of KKNI based curriculum in writing

class.

Based on the instrument used to take the

students’ perception on using social media as their

assessment materials, writer made some conclusion;

(1) the first data have shown that English is

importance to study. 70% students thought that

English should be mastered for the intention of

working, social communication, developing the

language skills and a tool to understand what going

on around the world and become one of the part of

the world communication, (2) They consider social

meia as the an media which help them in improving

their language skills, especially writing skill. 40 %

of the students agree using social media like FB, IG

and WA will develop their competences in learning

English, (3) Their motivation on learning English is

quite low since the materials used as the assessment

in writing class is inappropriate and didn’t met the

students’ need.

Next result from the second data explain the

students expectation in learning English is 25% of

the students prefer in the writing class is to have the

assessment material based on the real situation that

happen these days (authentic assessment) with the

adequate assessment and colorful text.

Further, the data from the third table indicates;

(1) Students considered that the existing material

was uninteresting to be read, since they have the

difficulty of exploring their ideas in writing, (2)

They also thought the content of the assessment

materials were out of date and unsuitable to the

students’ need in this era, (3) The students found

some unfamiliar words which no longer used this

day and the pictures were monotonous.

At last the final data from the fourth table shows;

(1) 90% of the students have familiar with the

materials consist of social media text, (2) The most

common used of social media was Instagram, and

(3) The students agree that Instagram is the potential

application used as the source of assessment

material.

We can conclude that the used of social media as

the writing assessment material has a big impact to

the achievement of implementation of KKNI based

curriculum in UNIMED.

Move over, the selected materials should be

revised and controlled to avoid the misused of social

media among the students.

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