Assessment during Covid-19: quality assurance of an online open book formative examination for undergraduate medical students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The spread of COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 compelled all the educational activities, including medical education to be shifted from face-to-face interaction to a virtual platform. This shift provided opportunities for exploring online assessment modalities. One such assessment method is an online open book exam which is a unique concept in medical education of Pakistan. Limited information is available in literature regarding open book exam for the basic science subjects. Hence, the objective of the study was to determine the quality of the open book exam administered as a pilot project to the first-year medical students.

Methods

It was a cross-sectional analytical study that included 99 students of first year MBBS. The students were administered an online unre

SUBMITTER: Rehman J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9666962 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature