Resumo
Background: Computer based assessment (CBA)
is increasingly used for assessment of students in
higher education. However, there is limited use of
CBA in many African medical schools. The
department of Medicine piloted the use of CBA for
assessment in clinical examination prior to its
introduction for regular use to a set of final year
medical students at the end of their clinical posting in
internal medicine.
Objectives: To evaluate the perception of final-year
medical students to the pilot testing of the use of CBA
for clinical based examination at the College of
Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Methods: A voluntary self-administered questionnaire
on basic demography and attitude towards CBA was
completed by the students after a CBA clinical
examination in internal medicine.
Results: Data were collected from 20(35.1%) female
students and 37(63.8%) male students. The students
reported a high level of previous IT experience with
95% females and 94.5% males rating themselves
good to expert in general computer appreciation and
internet use. Male students tended to agree more
than the females with the statement that CBA are
easier to handle than paper and pencil tests
(3.50(0.890) vs 3.97(1.01), p=0.0405) and also with
the statement that CBA reflected objectively a
student’s performance (3.2(1.05) vs 3.81(0.811),
p=0.0191). The students reflected on the ease of
examination process and the technical issues that
could affect the conduct of the examination.
Conclusions: The pilot test was well received by
the students and CBA could offer additional method
of student evaluation in a low resource environment.
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