THE EFFECTIVENESS OF WORDUP APPLICATION ON STUDENTS’

The progress of education with access to technology for several years can
improve the quality of education. Using technology in learning processes online or
offline found out the weaknesses and strengths of delivering materials. Hence, the
use of WordUp Application, which is one of the technologies that can be used to
insert vocabulary in writing skills. The method used for research was quasiexperimental with two group pre-test-post-test. The participants of this study were
students in eight grades at SMP Negeri 1 Belitang II. The research was conducted
by 8 meetings, 6 meetings for treatments and 2 meetings for pre- test- post-test. The
research data collection used normality test of Kolmogorov Smirnov, a test of
Levene test homogeneity, paired sample t-test and independent sample test on SPSS
25 program. The result of the research showed the different significance before and
after treatment with data analysis criteria of t-test that H0 (null hypothesis) was
rejected and Ha (alternative hypothesis) was accepted if the value was probably (p)
lower than alpha (<) 0,05. The conclusion of the study showed the effectiveness of
using WordUp Application on students' writing.