Distance online exams in rural India amid COVID-19 : the engineering student's perspectives
- Vol.38(3), Jan
- Pune Engineering Education Foundation 2025
- 237-349p.
The 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic has shown no concern for artificial borders, and it only took three months to a standstill in the world. During the lockdown period of the COVID-19 around the globe,theentireeducationalsystemlevelhas suddenly collapsed. The students' attitudes of distance online exams during the COVID-19 pandemic among engineering students in rural areas of India were analysed in this study. Asurvey of 11 questions was preparedanddistributedamong858engineering studentsoftheGujaratTechnologicalUniversity (GTU),India.Thequestionsincludestudents' demographics,examspreferences,academic dishonesty,stressexperience,factorsaffecting students' preference for distance online exams, factors related to students' exam dishonesty and measures that can be considered to reduce this behaviour and factors contributing to stress as well as behavioural changes related to distance online exams. The descriptive, cross tabulation, and Chi-square tests were used to interpret the data. The results of survey highlighted that approximately 41% students preferred distance online exams.