| Summary: | Online assessment using the expert system in fashion making practice was a new assessment as a result of developmental research. Online assessment using the expert system was made to avoid subjective assessment in evaluating the practice results. During the evaluation, there was a fitting process where students' posture and face could give individual influences. The practice results from slim and pretty students would provide better effects than students who were fat and less beautiful, even using the practice assessment indicators. The physical appearance of the participants or models such as body shape, face, and others would psychologically affect the lecturers' subjectivity during evaluation. Conducting practice evaluations using the expert system allowed students to report the practice results by answering online questions related to the fashion making results. Online assessment using the expert system facilitated the students to upload their practice results progress complete with answers following the issue in the online assessment software. Online evaluation with the expert system also assisted lecturers in monitoring the practice progress online that they could access everywhere and anywhere. This research aimed to analyze the online assessment of women fashion making practice using the expert system, to find the ease of use from the online system software, assessment content suitability, and assessment objectivity. For the methodology, this research used a quantitative descriptive method in a population of 28 Fashion Education students' class of 2018. The sampling technique in this research was total sampling. This research used the close questionnaire as the research instrument and analyzed the data using the percentage technique. The results showed that first, software easiness such as followings instruction, operational, filling and uploading the progress, indicated that 25 of 28 respondents, or 89.28%, were in favour of the 'easy' category. Second, assessment content analysis, such as assessment indicator, content from each index, and assessment aspect, demonstrated that 26 of 28 respondents or 92.85% was in favour of the 'relevant' category. And third, the assessment objectivity such as definite measuring instruments and objective assessment presented 27 of 28 respondents in support of the 'objective' category. The conclusion of this research using the expert system was overall in the excellent grade. This report was accurate because, in direct practicum assessment, the fitting session used model, and thus the physical condition of the models who were pretty and slim often gave subjective final results. © 2021 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
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