Investigating the effects of online assessment on students’ learning experience
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During the pandemic outbreak teaching and learning process has changed into an online mode and thus online evaluation became a requirement. Therefore, the current paper attempts to investigate the effects of online assessment on students’ learning behavior and teachers' views. It also includes the results of a questionnaire from 60 students followed by an interview with 07 EFL teachers from the Department of English in the University. The results from the questionnaire indicated that students have positive attitudes towards the administration of online assessment. Furthermore, the results from the interviews showed that there are four factors for valuable effects which are showing flexibility in assessment, enhancing evaluation adaptability, and increasing teachers' and students' awareness of the importance of evaluation by enlightening students’ autonomous learning abilities.
Keywords: Online assessment; online learning experience; student attitudes; teachers’ views.
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