Open-Book Final Examination: Do the Students Think it is Easier and Better for Them?

Assessment is always an important component in the teaching and learning process. The final examination is often carried out as a summative type of assessment to evaluate the student learning at the end of a course. Typically, final examination is conducted in a controlled environment ?close book? a...

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Main Authors: Anuar A., Ibrahim Z., Jamaluddin J.E.
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Published: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH 2025
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description Assessment is always an important component in the teaching and learning process. The final examination is often carried out as a summative type of assessment to evaluate the student learning at the end of a course. Typically, final examination is conducted in a controlled environment ?close book? approach. The less common method is using the ?open book? approach. A study was conducted at Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) to investigate the students? perception on open-book final examination, through a cross-sectional survey conducted among UNITEN students. The survey was conducted online between July 14, 2022, and August 8, 2022. Were number of respondents was 693 students, with 66.5% were male students, and 33.5% were female students. About half of the respondents think an open-book exam is easier (51.9% agree or strongly agree); and about two-thirds of the respondents think that they can get better results if the examination is conducted in open-book method (67.7% agree or strongly agree); and most of the respondents think that taking open-book examination is less stressful than closed-book examination (73.1% agree or strongly agree). Based on this survey, most students perceived that open-book examination is easier and better for them. ? The Author(s).
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spelling my.uniten.dspace-368072025-03-03T15:44:49Z Open-Book Final Examination: Do the Students Think it is Easier and Better for Them? Anuar A. Ibrahim Z. Jamaluddin J.E. 13609166500 7005685706 37080724200 Assessment is always an important component in the teaching and learning process. The final examination is often carried out as a summative type of assessment to evaluate the student learning at the end of a course. Typically, final examination is conducted in a controlled environment ?close book? approach. The less common method is using the ?open book? approach. A study was conducted at Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) to investigate the students? perception on open-book final examination, through a cross-sectional survey conducted among UNITEN students. The survey was conducted online between July 14, 2022, and August 8, 2022. Were number of respondents was 693 students, with 66.5% were male students, and 33.5% were female students. About half of the respondents think an open-book exam is easier (51.9% agree or strongly agree); and about two-thirds of the respondents think that they can get better results if the examination is conducted in open-book method (67.7% agree or strongly agree); and most of the respondents think that taking open-book examination is less stressful than closed-book examination (73.1% agree or strongly agree). Based on this survey, most students perceived that open-book examination is easier and better for them. ? The Author(s). Final 2025-03-03T07:44:49Z 2025-03-03T07:44:49Z 2024 Book chapter 10.1007/978-981-97-4507-4_80 2-s2.0-85218176903 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85218176903&doi=10.1007%2f978-981-97-4507-4_80&partnerID=40&md5=d0846c7e030b0d79673574a76ae5be9c https://irepository.uniten.edu.my/handle/123456789/36807 2024 721 729 Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH Scopus
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