EVALUATION PROTOCOLS IN SCIENCE LABORATORY LEARNING THROUGH ICT TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract

Science Laboratory learning using ICT, evaluation protocol is an important part of quality of assurance and to provide feedback for teaching and learning. Virtual lab is widely used ICT technology for the last five years to asssit new faculties in sceince. In this study, we focuss the purpose of assement and raising various difficulties associated with current evaluation techniques in learning and teaching. Assessment is based on test which includes different types of questionnaire for undergraduate students (N=150). Index of learning is conducted among these students, identified reflective and non-reflective learners. From our results, it is difficult to assess student’s knowledge gained from traditional or virtual classroom environment from single questionnaire protocol, especially for Visual-Verbal aspects in MCQ approach. Essay type questionnaire and Yes/No questions, the method is constrained to find solutions. We also discuss dependable factors and its percentage affecting for different questionnaire. The Cronbach’s alpha value is high for descriptive type questionnaire rather than MCQ, which show internal consistency, is high for descriptive type. T-test is conducted for the variation from one type questionnaire with combination type questionnaire. Current evaluation method does not fulfill the actual goals and this will lead to even misleading the assessment criteria rather than what they gained.