Abstract

Today, information technology is everywhere and accessible to almost all. In this age of information technology, medical education is now faced with novel challenges. The online healthcare information boom, on the one hand constantly challenges medical students to update and extend their current body of knowledge quickly. The fast expansion of higher education online learning has also benefited from the possible cost savings for unlimited learners. Passively arranged into an experimental or control group were the undergraduates who took part in the included experiments. The main of this study is to compare online and offline exams.

Methods: Data was collected from the examination department of college of Medicine, Najran University. Data was entered in the SPSS ver.20 for analysis. Descriptive and inferential statistics was obtained. (Mean, scores , frequencies and percentages), T test and chi-square tests were used to find out the significant differences and degree of associations between the scores and item analysis parameters.

Results: Out of 6 tests, we did not observe the significant differences among the online and offline pass rat except Exam F (P<0.01), Easy questions are significantly increased in online exams.

Conclusion:  Online MCQs are seems to be more easier than paper-based assessments, but Authorized / validated Online MCQs would be more precise.