Attitudes of students in the Department of General Science in the College of Basic Education towards electronic tests

الملخص

The research was  aimd to know the attitudes of General Sciences Department students in the College of Basic Education towards electronic tests (e-tests). To achieve the aims, the researcher adopted the descriptive research method. She had chosen the research sample using a classism random method from students of the Department of General Sciences in the College of Basic Education. The sample included (120) male and female students. A research tool was designed, which was (the attitude scale). After verifying the validity and reliability of the scale, the final draft of the test included (25) items according to the five-point Likert scale. It was applied to the sample, and its data was collected and statistically analyzed using the softwares Microsoft Excel and SPSS programes. The results showed that students' attitudes were positive towards e-tests, and that the general arithmetic mean amounted to (3.461) and falls within the sample's (agree) attitude. Based on the results reached by the research, a set of recommendations were made; the most important one is to exploit students' positive attitudes towards e-tests in enhancing their application in universities, implementing infrastructure development programs, providing free Internet networks, taking a look on the experiences of advanced countries and benefiting from universities' use of modern technology and its applications. The researcher presented a number of suggestions such as conducting similar research to find out the attitudes of school students and teachers towards e-tests and a comparative study between the effect of using electronic tests and the effect of using paper-pencil tests on student achievement.