Students' Preference of the Type of Online Homework Questions

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to compare between two different types of online home-work questions from undergraduate students' perceptions. The two types of questions are (MCQ) type questions and problem-solving type questions and answer submission. We formed two groups of undergraduate students, where one group used only (MCQ) types of online home-work questions, and the other group used only answer submission type questions. After 15 weeks of using online homework. We gave five-point Likert scale questionnaire consisting of 20 questions to 120 undergraduate female students at a private University in Riyadh. The study investigates students' preferences regarding online homework help and hint features. It explores their attitudes regarding the auto-grading assessment for the two types of online home-work questions. Students with only (MCQ) type questions demonstrated a higher percentage of satisfaction than those who had solution submission type questions. Due to COVID-19, from March 2020 until the present date, all teaching and learning transferred into online and virtual. Therefore, the author's investigation regarding the differences between both groups' attitudes towards the type of questions and instructor's viewpoint will be useful, specifically during the present time, due to enormous rely on online teaching and learning resources.