Educators stated that the performance of twelfth grade exams at the end of the school year, by default, represents a major challenge that requires different control procedures from what was followed in the tests in the school classes, pointing out that the responsibility is shared between the Ministry of Education, families and students, to ensure that exams are determined that determine the true levels of students .
While the ministry confirmed that it will take a set of control mechanisms for the twelfth grade students, while performing exams at the end of the current academic year, which will start tomorrow, through relying on technology and artificial intelligence.
In detail, the educational expert, Noura Al-Muhairi, said that the adoption of remote end-of-year exams is a qualitative educational precedent recorded by the Ministry of Education during the current year, in light of the pandemic of the Corona virus emerging in the world, considering that this step is logical, to maintain the safety of students .
She added that "many organizational matters must be taken into consideration, such as taking supervisory measures different from the traditional ones, and making sure that the exam conditions are controlled to a degree that prevents the leakage of questions to the parents of the students or the supposed assistants, who are sitting behind the scenes."
She emphasized that the students ’parents bear great educational, psychological, ethical and national responsibilities that they must realize, including that remote exams are a favorable opportunity to achieve higher degrees, not depending on the role and assistance of parents in answering questions, but by virtue of students sitting in homes and increasing the opportunity for studying with them, Hence better academic achievement and greater psychological rest during exam performance.
The educational, Khaled Al Hosani, emphasized that the implementation of the twelfth grade exams is a new experience, required by the current circumstances, as a precautionary measure to protect students from any infection, in addition to that the electronic exam system in general depends on more accurate methods, but it is not without the possibility of occurrence Excesses, especially if these tests are performed remotely, so appropriate control measures must be applied.
He pointed out that the application of exams by default requires different methods, to ensure the achievement of a real assessment of the students' levels, whether by different control methods or the nature of the questions that measure the realism of the student’s academic achievement, so that only the student who has worked hard to collect the information during the semester does not provide space for transportation From a book or any other source, in addition to the need to take into account the individual differences between students.
The educator, Abdul Karim Mustafa, stated that during the third semester, students underwent several electronic tests remotely, and these tests were prepared for the twelfth grade students in practical training on remote exams, and although this is a positive step, the final exams for students (Secondary) is still the biggest concern for them, which leads students to invent multiple methods in the arts of cheating, and the remote exam system may give them a great opportunity to cheat, and then the method of asking questions represents the largest component to ensure the performance of exams that show the real levels of students, so this is Examinations require different control procedures. In her remarks, the Ministry of Education confirmed that it has a system of close monitoring and follow-up of students ’performance in exams, remotely, in order to prevent fraud cases.
Several directives were specified for students during the performance of the test, namely that each question is limited to a specific time that appears next to the question, and students must ensure that the question is answered before moving to the next question, and before the end of the time specified for the answer, and when the time specified for the question has ended, it cannot be answered, and must be moved to The next question is directly, and when the student moves to the next question, he cannot return to the previous question.
Student assessment methods
The Ministry of Education stated that «student evaluation depends on several procedures, to calibrate grades and review grades for the first semester, and audit at some levels of students, so the suspicion of specific grades for the student will prompt us to conduct a direct interview with him, to make sure whether he is the one who answered exam questions Alone, and nobody helped him with that. ” She explained that the students ’families have an aspect of responsibility, and they should realize that the goal of education is to develop students’ skills, not degrees.