Ever since the COVID-19 lockdown, teaching and assessment methods in medical education have been shifted to virtual lines. Students’ feedback provides the perfect criteria for analyzing the effectiveness of online assessments. The present study has been done to evaluate the fruitfulness of online assessments from students’ point of view. After taking informed consent, keeping the identity anonymous, a self-developed questionnaire with ten questions were provided to the students by google form. The responses were evaluated. 120 students participated in the study (75girls, 45boys) with age ranging from 17-23 years. 63.3% students selected pen & paper examination option as the best suited for the theoretical knowledge. 54.5% replied that objective tests can be done online. 59.1% found the advantage to see the grade and revise immediately after the online test. Most of them replied in their own words, that more time has to be allotted for online assessment which is needed to upload their documents. To conclude, majority of the students opined that online assessment may not be the panacea for e-learning during this pandemic. They expressed their inclination more towards the traditional pen & paper examination.
Online assessment, medical students, feedback, pen &paper examination
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