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      Challenges of remote assessment in higher education in the context of COVID-19: a case study of Middle East College

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          Due to the unprecedented COVID-19 incident, higher education institutions have faced different challenges in their teaching-learning activities. Particularly conducting assessments remotely during COVID-19 has posed extraordinary challenges for higher education institutions owing to lack of preparation superimposed with the inherent problems of remote assessment. In the current study, the challenges of remote assessment during COVID-19 incident in higher education institutions were investigated taking Middle East College as a case study. For the study, questionnaires were prepared and data from 50 faculties were collected and analyzed. The study focused on the challenges of remote assessment in general and academic dishonesty in particular. The main challenges identified in remote assessment were academic dishonesty, infrastructure, coverage of learning outcomes, and commitment of students to submit assessments. To minimize academic dishonesty, preparing different questions to each student was found to be the best approach. Online presentation was also found to be good option to control academic integrity violations. Combining various assessment methods, for instance report submission with online presentation, helps to minimize academic dishonesty since the examiner would have a chance to confirm whether the submitted work is the work of the student.

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                Author and article information

                Contributors
                fiseham2002@yahoo.com
                adeel@mec.edu.om
                milham@mec.edu.om
                basim@mec.edu.om
                Journal
                Educ Assess Eval Account
                Educ Assess Eval Account
                Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability
                Springer Netherlands (Dordrecht )
                1874-8597
                1874-8600
                21 October 2020
                : 1-17
                Affiliations
                GRID grid.462569.a, ISNI 0000 0004 0377 7819, Department of Mechanical Engineering, , Middle East College, ; PB 79, PC 124, Al Rusayl, Muscat Oman
                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8497-4117
                Article
                9340
                10.1007/s11092-020-09340-w
                7576099
                33101539
                6e83bf0e-f28c-44d0-98d1-0fd7b8747d0d
                © Springer Nature B.V. 2020

                This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.

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                : 31 July 2020
                : 15 October 2020
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