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ArticleJournal of education and health promotion2022

Online assessment in two consequent semesters during COVID-19 pandemic: K-means clustering using data mining approach.

Farshid Abedi, Batool Eghbali, Narjes Akbari, Ehsan Sadr, Fatemeh Salmani

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Farshid AbediDepartment of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Research Center, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran.
Batool EghbaliDepartment of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran.
Narjes AkbariDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine, School of Dentistry, Infectious Diseases Research Center, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran.
Ehsan Sadre-Learning Center, Birjand University of Medical Science, Birjand, Iran.
Fatemeh SalmaniDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Health, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran.

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backgroundEducation and assessment have changed during the COVID-19 pandemic so that online courses replaced face-to-face classes to observe the social distance. The quality of online assessments conducted during the pandemic is an important subject to be addressed. In this study, the quality of online assessments held in two consecutive semesters was investigated. MATERIALS AND

methodsOne thousand two hundred and sixty-nine multiple-choice online examinations held in the first (

resultsThe mean percentage of answers to all tests was 69.97 ± 19.16, and the number of questions was 34.48 ± 18.75. In two semesters, there was no significant difference between the difficulty of examinations (

conclusionTo evaluate the tests' quality, calculating difficulty and discrimination indices is not sufficient; many factors can affect the quality of tests. Furthermore, the experience of the first semester had changed characteristics of the second-semester examinations. To enhance the quality of online tests, establishing appropriate rules to hold the examinations and using questions with higher taxonomy are recommended.

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