Impact of a Formative e-Assessment on Learning Outcomes: A Pilot Study on a Social and Behavioural Sciences Course, College of Health Sciences, University of Bahrain

Eighty five nursing students of College of Health Sciences (CHS), Bahrain, taking Social and behavioral sciences course SBS126 participated in this study. Participants took an online open book formative quiz outside the class setting followed by a summative formal test covering the content in the formative quiz (condition 2). Their marks in the summative test were compared with marks obtained in an earlier summative test (condition 1) in the same course which was preceded by a formative conventional class quiz. It was hypothesized that the participants will perform better in the second condition. Results indicate that participants performed considerably better when the summative test was preceded byan online formative assessment.