Pharmacy students' perceptions and preferences towards the online assessment (quiz and test) / Mohamad Nadzlen Ahamad

Background: Advance in online technologies gives advantage to the educational aspects. Online assessment synchronously arises with the online education. Although nowadays, online assessment is widely practiced, research is lacking about the students' perceptions and preferences towards the implementation of on line assessment in their course work.
Objectives: The aim of this study is to determine the students' perception and preferences towards the implementation of the on line assessment as well as to determine the association between the online assessments with the socio demographic profile.
Methods: The study was a cross sectional study by using paper based survey. Data collection is done to the Pharmacy students from Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Puncak Alam. The questions about perceptions and the preferences part were applying the 5 points Likert scale. The descriptive analysis is done and its associations with the socio demographic profile are analyzed using the Kruskal Wallis test.
Results: Majority of the respondents perceived uncertain towards most of the statements on perception parts and strongly agreed with the preferences given. Gender, semester and the number of on line assessment taken were found significantly associated with the perceptions and the preferences.
Conclusions:Although there was much room to be improved in this study in the future, some of the results can be taken into consideration to improve the online assessment systems like the flexibility, prompt feedback and cheating aspect.