Students’ Perception of Using “Plickers” Application to Assess Students’ Tenses

This research was conducted to investigate the students’ perception of using the “Plickers” application to assess students’ tenses. In order to obtain the data, the research employed a descriptive qualitative research design. The participants were 35 students from class X IPA IC SMAN 2 Kendari. This research used questionnaires and interviews as data collection methods. In the questionnaire, the researcher applied a close-ended questionnaire with a Likert scale containing three aspects with nine specific questions and analyzed using SPSS 16. While, the interview was used to obtain a deeper analysis of students’ perception of the Plickers app, which was given after the post-test and questionnaire. The results presented in the form of graphs and percentages showed that the positive perceptions were higher than negative and neutral perception results. The result of the learning aspect was 89.3 % positive and 10.70% neutral, and the result of the behavior aspect was 91.5% positive and 8.5% neutral. Furthermore, the result of the general use aspect was 87.1% positive and 12.9% neutral. Subsequently, the interview data were analyzed by Miles and Huberman's view of data analysis consisting of data reduction, data display, and drawing a conclusion. The results of the interview analysis showed a positive result, which implied the positive perception of students in using Plickers to assess tenses. Therefore, “Plickers” application contributed to the student's understanding of the material and impacted their tenses scores.