ONLINE TESTING OF THE COMPETENCES IN SCIENCE IN THE CASE OF STUDENTS IN THE COMPULSORY SCHOOL

Abstract

Under the pressure of the Covid-19 pandemic, the school activities have moved from the classroom to the online environment. Considering these circumstances, the teachers have made serious efforts to adapt their teaching and assessment methods to the possibilities offered by the virtual space. They have used various educational platforms and digital resources, trying to be in contact with their students, learning “on the go” to make the most efficient use of them in the teaching process. Being an important topic in education in the current period, we present, in this paper, the results of the online testing for Physics and Chemistry of some middleschool students, realized through the Kahoot educational platform. These results support the opinion that face-to-face school or even blended-learning are, in general, more efficient than online school. Some advantages of the online assessment were also highlighted, most of them attitudinal; for example, most of the students were excited about the opportunity to participate in this assessment, and some of them returned to the platform and solved some tests twice, so using them for learning. The results of the online assessment have also underlined some components of the school curricula that are harder to be transformed into student’s acquisitions, and for which more time and explanations are needed.

Keywords

• competence-based education
• middle school education
• online assessment