Comparison of Students Performance in Cell Phone-based, Computer-Based and Paper-Based Testing

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the use of Cell Phone-based, Computer-Based assessment strategies are effective in evaluating students' achievement in educational technologies compared to the paper-based assessment strategy used in Jordanian Universities. The researcher followed the equivalent pre/post-test two-group design. To achieve the aim of the study, a pre/post-test assessment was constructed to measure students' achievement in educational technologies. The test consisted of 20 right or wrong questions selected from the curriculum of the course (Appendix 1). The subjects of the study consisted of 192 students distributed on three sections, which were selected purposefully enrolling in Jadara University during the second semester of the academic year 2008/2009. The participants were (59) male students for the experimental group and (34) male students for the control group, while the female students for the experimental and control group were (63) and (36) respectively. Those participants were distributed among three purposefully selected sections in Jadara University. Descriptive statistical methods were used (means and standard deviation) for pre and post-tests of students' achievement in Educational Technologies to experimental and control groups. Comparison statistical methods were used (Two Way ANOVA) analysis of variance to make a comparison between the control and the experimental group, gender variable (male and female), and interaction between them. The findings of the study indicated that there were statistically significant differences in the post- test between the control group and the experimental group in favor of the experimental group, and there was a statistically significant difference in the students' achievement due to gender in favor of females. There was statistically significant difference due to the interaction between gender and group in favor of female students in the experimental group. The researcher proposed some recommendations to enhance the effect of using cell phone-based and computer-based assessment on students' achievement such as conducting further researches on other populations and for a longer time.