Case study: An exploratory-descriptive study on the engineering students' perceptions about online assessment during the COVID-19

Abstract

: To ensure high-quality educational processes, more educational research should be developed about student experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the student's perception about distance learning education (under the current situation) could be used as input for instructors and educational institutions to guide their distance learning process. The primary aim of this research is to explore engineering undergraduate student's perceptions about the online assessment methods during the COVID-19 age. This paper presents an exploratory-descriptive study based on content and quantitative analysis tools. The main findings of this research concern the factors perceived as the main differences between the face-to-face and online assessment by a group of engineering students during the current pandemic. These factors are: teaching presence, self-efficacy, autonomy, teamwork, and coherence between assessment and class. Furthermore, in the analyzed state-of-the-art, the last three factors have not been reported. These results will be used to guide the improvement of future online assessment methods in our engineering school. Keywords: Assessment's methods; COVID-19; Distance Learning; On-line Learning.

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“…Such practice is a preparation for students to be suitable for the future, where there is the reconciliation of the university with the labor market, often in a double journey. Fajardo et al (2022) analyzed the main differences between face-to-face and online assessment, the study highlighted that the lack of physical presence and the teacher's monitoring caused the loss of self-efficacy of the tests, besides the loss of interpersonal relationships to perform the teamwork and coherence between assessment and class, however, it was observed the gain of autonomy so that students could perform the assessments individually. The study reinforces that these results can be used to improve future online assessment methods, especially in technology and engineering courses.…”