Approaching validity of online testing under covid-19 pandemic teaching protocol : a case study

Abstract EN

This paper attempts to investigate the issue of online tests, or more precisely, at home answering, validity under covid-19 pandemic and see the extent to which learners' answers reflect what their teachers have supplied them with and what they have really learned.

The study was conducted at the English department at Batna2 university during the second semester of the 2019/2020 academic year and concerned twenty two teachers who used the online tests.

An online questionnaire was sent to these teachers to gain quantitative and qualitative data, which enabled us approaching this topic in depth.

The results obtained support the claim that remote testing conducted by our learners are at-home answering and do not reflect what and how online testing should be.

Moreover, a general opinion was made that the actual way in which online tests are conducted in our department are far from ensuring validity.

Other results are the basics of some suggestions made at the end of this study.