UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCE WITH ONLINE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TESTING IN 2021 AND 2022

Abstract

During the Covid-19 pandemic, online assessment is widely used as a form of temporary solution to ensure uninterrupted teaching and learning activities. At the same time, the world education, including Vietnamese education, is rapidly changing in line with the trend of digital transformation and building open educational models. In that common trend, online testing and assessment will become more and more popular. With the purpose of looking back on what has happened as well as forming a basis for planning for the future, this study was conducted through collecting opinions of 685 students who participated in online language testing and assessment held both at class scale and on a large scale in 2021 and 2022. The study's data collection tool was a questionnaire about students' experiences with the pros and cons of online language testing and assessment. Research results show that students at this university had quite positive experiences with the school's online language testing and assessment activities. When comparing the data obtained from students majoring in English and those majoring in other foreign languages, some significant differences in the experiences of the two groups were found. These research results have certain implications for the future implementation and expansion of online language testing and assessment activities.