Identifying affecting factors on the quality of students' online learning evaluation in COVID-19 era: challenges and solutions
Subject Areas :نازنین بنی اسدی 1 , الهام کرمعلی زاده 2
1 - استادیار، گروه مدیریت آموزشی، دانشکده علوم انسانی، دانشگاه آزاد اسالمی واحد تهران شمال، ایران،
2 - دانش آموخته کارشناسی ارشد گروه علوم تربیتی- دانشکده علوم انسانی- دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی- واحد تهران شمال
Keywords: Online higher education, electronic assessment, students' learning evaluation, COVID-19 ,
Abstract :
The purpose of this study is identifying factors affecting the quality of online evaluation system of students' learning, during the COVID-19 pandemic in technical and engineering faculties of Shahid Beheshti University located in Shahid Abbaspur campus. For this purpose, the researcher has extracted affecting factors, criteria and indicators from literature review, modified and approved them by means of the expert group (20 faculty members) using three Delphi rounds. Based on the theoretical foundations and research findings, 5 factors, 16 criteria and 34 indicators affecting the quality of electronic evaluations were identified and confirmed. The extracted factors are: the roles of evaluation (faculty members' awareness of kinds of assessment due regard to formative assessment), the test design (designing exam questions, suitable to subject matter and content, also proper for online exam, which prevents plagiarism), the educational goals to be evaluated (the goals of the cognitive and the psycho-motor domain), feedback for the results (providing feedback on the progress results for students and professors and providing the necessary information to improve and correct the performance of students and professors) and technology (creating a suitable platform and virtual environment for holding online tests and providing technical support).
