Abstract:

From mid-March, universities in the Czech Republic were closed. Teaching has changed to a contactless form. The students were given materials in electronic form, possible consultations took place using MS Teams, WhatsApp, Skype or email. This period was thus challenging both for students and for teachers, who in many cases had to get used to the new system of education.

Closing of subjects (credit, exam) also took place without contact. Within the subjects Experimental Methods, the student had to work out homework and pass the final exam using a check test within the School Information System. A similar approach was chosen for physics, with the only difference that the students did not have homework and the calculated examples had to be photographed (scanned) and submitted to the information system. The correctness of the calculation procedure could be checked.

For many students, these were the exams needed to complete their studies. They were therefore motivated to pass the exam at all costs.

One of the problems with non-contact testing using tests in the information system is that students cannot be remotely checked what aids they use. IS allows you to at least monitor open websites. Nor can it be guaranteed that a student who is logged in is sitting at the computer. If we compare the success of students in contact and contactless testing, it can be said that students were more successful in passing the exam using IS. But even under these conditions, some students could not pass the exam. The structure of the test was identical in both cases.

Keywords:

Remote testing, COVID-19, distance learning.