The computer based tests : a digital substitution for the Iraqi postgraduate students

• Published in: Ibn Al-Haitham Journal for Pure and Applied Sciences Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 171 - 177
• Main Author: Baghdadi, Ammar Awni Abbas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Baghdad, Iraq University of Baghdad, College of Education for Pure Science / Ibn al-Haitham 22-11-2018; University of Baghdad
• Subjects: PC Based Tests, CBT, Paper Based test, PPT
• ISSN: 1609-4042; 2521-3407
• DOI: 10.30526/31.3.2019

The wide spread of Computer Based Test in the Iraqi universities raised an
important concern for some scholars thinking about integrating computers as an
academic assessment tool before making big change in the examination systems, that concern
is: how the computerized test score is effected in comparison to old paper and pencil. This
paper researches whether test scores of Iraqi students varies in the computer, Pencil based
tests, sixty-four postgraduate graduates from Iraqi universities. Thirty-five female and twentynine
males, all graduated from colleges of science in specializations other than computer
science and applying for postgraduate studies in the Iraqi public universities. Therefore, are
obliged to get the Iraqi computer skills certification for the postgraduate studies, those
students chose the computer center in the University of Baghdad to get that certificate. The
findings of the study confirmed that postgraduate candidates test scores were not distinctive in
the PC based test and in the paper based test, which drove us to presume that PC based testing
can be considered as a promising elective method for the logical postgraduate candidates in
Iraq.