Perception of Evaluators While Evaluating University Theory Answer Sheets: Cross-Sectional Virtual Survey

Background: Nursing is a profession in which student after completing their training programme and provides best care to the patients. This training will shape the student’s future and make it bright. This Profession makes a student’s more decision maker, critical thinker and deal with daily ethical challenges. An important and simultaneously difficult aspect of good examination preparation is obtaining a properly trained and well-motivated group of assessors. To effectively recruit and maintain cooperation with assessors, it is worth knowing their opinion. The main aim of conducting this survey is to know the opinion of evaluators while evaluating. Objective: To assess the perception of evaluators while evaluating university theory answer sheets and to find out the association between the perception of evaluators with their selected demo-graphic variables. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted using a questionnaire on evaluators who evaluate university theory answer sheets. This questionnaire consisted of 12 dichotomous questions about their perceptions. Purposive sampling technique was used to collect data. A total of 114 evaluators participated in this study. Descriptive and inferential statistics was used to find out the result. Finding: The Result showed that out of 114 evaluators, maximum 56.1% of evaluators were belongs to the age group of 31-40 years followed by 82.5% were females. Majority 93.9% were working in private area followed by 78.9% were qualified M.Sc (N). Majority 38.6% of evaluators were having 3 to7 years of experience. Majority of the evaluators has shown positive perception regarding all the aspects except the good or bad mood of the evaluator while checking the university theory answer sheets and checking previous theory sheet will affect the marking of the next answer sheets. Conclusion: The study concluded that the variables like age, gender, working area, qualification and years of experience were found to be statistically non-significant i.e., p<0.05.