Work in progress: High School Students’ Perspective on Assessment Question Types during Online Learning - Preliminary Study for Automated Assessments of Open-ended Questions

Transitioning to online learning with e-learning during the pandemic is not easy due to many factors such as unpreparedness of teachers in preparing the assessments. Good assessments should foster students’ higher order thinking skill. Generally, assessments have two types of questions: open-ended and closed-ended. Given that open-ended question is more comprehensive to measure student knowledge, this study seeks to know whether high school students are aware about the matter and whether the trend of using both types of questions are changed in the online learning, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Findings of this study will be the basis of our next research: developing automated assessments on open-ended questions. A questionnaire survey on 454 high school students shows that they are aware about the comprehensiveness and the objectivity of open-ended questions. Students also agree that automatic grader is crucial to learning process for both the student and the teacher.