Investigating Factors Shaping Behavioral Intention in Mobile-Based Assessment for Junior High School Students During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Indonesia

This electronic document is a “live” template and already Few studies focus on technology adoption research on mobile-based assessment (MBA) despite the opportunity for mobile-based assessment implementation in the COVID-19 pandemic is increasing. Investigating the Junior high school students’ determinant factors that affect their behavioral intention to use MBA was the goal of this study The technological acceptance model (TAM) was the acceptance model used in this investigation. and several other determinants such as perceived mobility (PM), perceived trust (PT), mobile user interface (MUI), mobile self-efficacy (MSE), infrastructure (I), content (C), and satisfaction (S). This research was conducted at a public junior high school in Malang, East Java, Indonesia with a total of 145 students as respondents. The survey data were analyzed using a structural equation model (SEM) using the Smart PLS 3.0 application. The results of this study confirm that perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PEOU), and satisfaction have a positive effect on BIU in terms of the use of MBA. The developed model predicted a 15.6% variance of BIU on the use of MBA.

I. Introduction

In March 2020, COVID-19 was declared by World Health Organization (WHO) a global pandemic. In the same month, the first cases in Indonesia also were also reported. Not long after that, the Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and technology called for immediate closure all schools and higher education institutions in order to suppress the COVID-19 spread, thus the remote learning modalities were implemented, teaching and learning were shifted to distance home-based learning [1]. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in digital learning platform use. There are various types of digital platforms which popularly used in educational settings in Indonesia during pandemics, namely: instant messaging platforms (e.g., WhatsApp, telegram), web-based video meeting platforms including Google meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams, as well as educational technology (ed-tech) platforms such as Rumah Belajar [2], Moodle and Google Classroom.