فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Background: Electronic tests are one of the consequences of the influence of technology in education. Given the pivotal role ofstudents, an awareness of their attitudes toward electronic tests can help improve the quality of these tests. This study aimed toinvestigate the attitudes of students at Ilam University of Medical Sciences toward electronic tests.Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 205 students at Ilam University of Medical Sciences in westernIran in 2021. The students were selected through multi-stage sampling. Data were collected using a demographic information formand a researcher-made questionnaire to examine students’ attitudes toward electronic tests. The collected data were analyzed usingSPSS-22 software.Results: The data showed that 51.4% of the students had positive attitudes about the use of electronic tests, 31.0% had negativeattitudes, and 17.6% of the students had no opinion. Furthermore, 61.7% of students had relatively positive attitudes toward thestructure and system of electronic tests, 41.4% were positive about the compatibility of tests with the teaching model and thenature of their fields of study, 55.8% expressed positive views about test security and its stressors, 44.4% of the students proposedsolutions to improve the quality of electronic tests, and 53.6% of the students had moderately positive attitudes toward electronictests compared to paper and pencil tests.Conclusion: The findings suggested that more than half of the students had positive attitudes toward electronic tests and their fivedimensions. Accordingly, educational managers and planners need to develop a suitable framework and set requirements forimproving the electronic infrastructure for administering electronic tests