Foreign Languages E-Learning Assessment Efficiency and Content Access Effectiveness During Corona Pandemic in University Context
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https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1210.20Keywords:
e-learning, assessment efficiency, corona pandemic, content effectivenessAbstract
The learning process has many fundamentals; one of them is to assess the outcomes from the process to see to what degree the students benefit from this process, which determines whether or not the goals of education are being met. The Assessment of students' learning from proposed and offered content is another fundamental in the process of education. However, in the era of online teaching, assessing and choosing the appropriate content/ material became challenging. It rendered this process, to an extent, to be problematic due to the challenges that arose from the absence of physical meetings between teachers and students. Therefore, this study examines foreign language E-learning Assessment Efficiency and Effectiveness to access the content in the University context during the Corona Pandemic from the perspective of (154) college students selected randomly from various Jordanian universities. To conduct the study, a questionnaire was developed, and data were gathered and analyzed using SPSS. The survey results indicated that the Efficiency of the electronic Assessment used at universities from the students' perspective ranked high among all disciplines of study, with a mean score of (3.19) and a percentage score of (63.8 percent). Moreover, the Effectiveness of electronic content ranked also high, with a mean of (2.79) and a percentage of (56%). The study revealed that university administration must pay attention to the Assessment methods of foreign language e-learning and distribute its content via well-known channels. In addition, it advised conducting research complementary to the current study.
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