Investigating the Relationship of Virtual Exams on Anxiety and General Health of students

Background & Goals: 

With the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic, the fields of Iranian society, including the educational system, were overshadowed, and electronic education gave way to the traditional method, and evaluation in virtual space was raised as an important discussion in education and evaluation. The purpose of this research is to determine the level of anxiety caused by students' virtual exams.

This descriptive-analytical study was conducted on undergraduate midwifery students in the academic year of 2020- 2021 using a three-part questionnaire including demographic information, an exam Anxiety questionnaire, and a General Health questionnaire., standard deviation, and relative and absolute frequency of the data, and the research data were analyzed using central indices, dispersion, one-way analysis of variance, and Spearman's correlation coefficient.

The average score of students' anxiety was 71.51±13.36 with a range of 29-97, which shows that students' anxiety is moderate to high. The average score of students' general health was 28.84 ± 14.5. The results showed that there was a direct and significant relationship between the total score of anxiety and general health (p<0.0001 and r=0.487).

In general, the findings of the present study showed the effect of virtual exams on the anxiety of midwifery students of the Islamic Azad University of Neyshabur, and this anxiety is effective on the general health of students. It is necessary to take necessary measures in this field so that virtual exams can be used as a safe method of evaluation.