Abstract
Aims: This study aims to establish the correlation between the duration to finish an exam and the student’s exam performance quantitatively. The goal is to determine statistically whether spending more time in an exam can improve the exam grade performance. Study Design: An advanced senior level undergraduate neuropsychopharmacology course and an introductory freshman level biology course were selected in this study to compare the student’s exam performance with respect to the sequential time order of the exam completion. Both courses had similar number of questions (50 multiple-choice questions) in the exams and similar enrollment size (>100 students), so comparison of the exam performance can be made.
Highlights
An exam is typically a part of the assessment process to provide feedback to both students and instructors to determine whether the students have acquired the knowledge in a course
*Corresponding author: Email: nicoladie.tam@unt.edu; British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Science, 4(8): 1125-1139, 2014 students who completed the exam last, compared to those who finished the exam first. This decreasing trend of grade performance exist for both courses, even though the students in the senior level course performed better by 6% in the class average than the freshman course
This study provides a quantitative assessment of the exam performance in relation to the time it takes to finish the exam, so that educators can evaluate the appropriate allotment of time for an exam for students to perform their potentials
Summary
An exam is typically a part of the assessment process to provide feedback to both students and instructors to determine whether the students have acquired the knowledge in a course. There are no quantitative analyses on what is the appropriate amount of time provided to the students to finish an exam and whether the time a student spends in an exam would affect the grade performance outcome. If the assumption that the amount of time available in an exam can affect the student’s performance, does providing more time for students to finish an exam than is appropriate will lead to a better grade performance or a worse grade performance?. The question is: Does providing students with extra time to finish an exam lead to an unfair advantage that results in a better grade?. The question is: Does taking more time to finish an exam would help getting a better grade because of the extra time?
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