Student Opinions on the Assessment and Evaluation Applications Performed During the Covid 19 Pandemic in Higher Education

Abstract

Yazar 1* Abstract. With the COVID-19 pandemic, new experiences have begun to be experienced globally in many sectors in the world and in Turkey. The COVID-19 pandemic, which affects every field, has brought new applications especially in education. In higher education, there have been changes in the teaching, measurement and evaluation practices with the emergency distance education process. In this study, students' views on measurement and evaluation applied in the emergency distance education process in higher education were examined. The aim of this research, which was conducted within this framework, is to examine the opinions of the senior students of the education faculty regarding the measurement and evaluation practices in the emergency distance education process during COVID-19. Within the scope of this study, which was approved by the ethics committee, the opinions of 40 education faculty senior students were collected through an open-ended questionnaire. In addition, nine volunteers from the students participating in the research were interviewed. The collected data were analyzed through the MAXQDA-2020 qualitative data analysis program. As a result of the analyzes made, six themes were determined regarding measurement and evaluation, including obstacles encountered, exam applications, homework applications, general success status, preferences regarding measurement and evaluation tools, and suggestions for measurement and evaluation applications. While the students mainly emphasized cheating in measurement and evaluation practices in the distance education process, they emphasized the use of homework in the evaluation of student success. In line with these results, suggestions were made to researchers and policy makers.

Keywords

• emergency distance education
• measurement and evaluation
• higher education
• prospective teachers.
• COVID-19

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