Students and examiners perception on virtual medical graduation exam during the COVID-19 quarantine period: A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown approach that was adopted all over the world, conducting assessments while maintaining integrity became a big challenge. This article aims at sharing the experience of conducting an online assessment with the academic community and to assess its effectiveness from both examiners' and students' perspectives.

Methods

An online assessment was carried out for the final year medical students of Hawler Medical University/Iraq during the lockdown period of the COVID-19 pandemic, June 2020. Then, an online questionnaire was sent to a sample of 61 examiners and 108 students who have been involved in evaluating the mentioned assessment process. Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used to compare the mean ranks

SUBMITTER: Alkhateeb NE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9390930 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature