Practicality of Ad Hoc Online Assessments for Teaching ESP in Online Flipped Classrooms during COVID-19

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The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the livelihood of many ever since its first detection nearly a year ago. Up until now, almost every domain of societal norms has been drastically impacted—particularly education. Many people immediately opted for Internet-based apps and programs within their capabilities and financial means to cope with the learning progress for themselves and the people around them. Learning institutions and teaching staffs worldwide quickly adopted these technologies and later adapted everything within online contexts. From there, extensive changes had been made to cope with the teaching/learning issues caused by the global pandemic. By utilizing an adapted questionnaire, this study discussed and evaluated the practicality of online assessments that had been implemented posthaste to assess an Aviation English course for aircraft maintenance undergraduates in flipped classrooms. The discussion findings indicated that while there were certainly a number of issues that can be quickly improvised in the near future, the whole implementation was definitely a success—especially with the ongoing limitations experienced by both educators and students.

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