Department of Medical Education, College of Medicine, Hawler Medical University, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Hawler Medical University, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
PLoS One. 2022 Aug 19;17(8):e0272927. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272927. eCollection 2022.
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.
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 of the overall satisfaction scores between categories of the students and examiners. Categorical data were summarized and presented as frequencies and percentages.
The response rates among examiners and students were 69.4% and 88.5% respectively. The majority of the examiners were generally satisfied with the online examination process compared to only around a third of the students. However, both examiners and students agreed that online examination was not suitable for assessing the physical examination skills.
The online assessment can be considered a good alternative and acceptable method for medical students' assessment in unpredicted emergencies, yet it was not applicable in testing physical examination skills.
随着 COVID-19 大流行的出现和全球范围内采用的封锁措施，在保持完整性的同时进行评估成为一个巨大的挑战。本文旨在与学术界分享在线评估的经验，并从考官和学生的角度评估其效果。
在 COVID-19 大流行封锁期间，对伊拉克哈瓦尔医科大学的最后一年医学生进行了在线评估。然后，向参与评估所述评估过程的 61 名考官和 108 名学生样本发送了在线问卷。使用 Mann-Whitney 和 Kruskal-Wallis 检验比较学生和考官总体满意度评分的平均等级。对分类数据进行汇总并以频率和百分比表示。
考官和学生的回复率分别为 69.4%和 88.5%。与只有大约三分之一的学生相比，大多数考官对在线考试过程普遍感到满意。然而，考官和学生都认为在线考试不适合评估体检技能。
在线评估可以被视为在意外紧急情况下对医学生进行评估的一种良好替代和可接受的方法，但不适用于测试体检技能。
