A Study on The Attitudes of Students, Instructors, and Educational Principals to Electronic Administration of FinalSemester Examinations in Payame Noor University in Iran

Year 2015, Volume: 16 Issue: 3, 118 - 125, 06.07.2015

Faranak Omıdıan Farzaneh Alı

https://doi.org/10.17718/tojde.92435

Cited By: 1

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes of students, instructors, and educational principals to electronic administration of final-semester examinations at undergraduate and post- graduate levels in Payame Noor University in Khuzestan. The statistical population of this study consisted of all educational principals, instructors, of students of Payame Noor University in Khuzestan. The sample of the study consisted of 19 principals, 46 members of faculties, and 296 students. The instrument of the research (material) was a questionnaire that was designed by the researcher of this study. This research was a descriptive-survey study. The results showed that the attitudes of students, instructors, and educational principals to electronic administration of examinations are positive.

Keywords

Feasibility, electronic examination, Payame Noor University, information technology

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