The Management Skills of Exam Process for Undergraduate Students

Abstract

This study aims to identify to what degree undergraduate students are able to manage the exam process to be successful in exams. The study group of the research, which utilizes the survey model, consists of 350 students in total, 185 female and 165 male, attending 4 different teaching programs in Faculty of Education, Gazi University. “The Scale of Exam application techniques”, developed by Erisen and Celikoz in 2004, was applied to the study group. This 5-point Likert scale consists of 40 items about techniques used by students (1) before the exam, (2) during the exam, and (3) at the end of the exam. Three factors of the scale explain .68 of the total variance and the Cronbach’s Alpha Reliability Coefficient of the scale is .95. In the present study, we compared exam process management skills of students based on variables of gender, grade and academic achievement. It was observed that opinions of undergraduate students about their exam process management skills varied according to independent variables. 

Keywords: exams, exam strategy, academic achievement, examination system