Medical students' perception of online assessment at a private medical college

Introduction: During COVID-19 lockdown, Shalamar Medical College opted for an unproctored online formative assessment. Medical institutes have conducted online assessments before COVID-19 and literature presents contrasting views on its acceptability by teachers and students alike. Objective:  This study aims to determine medical students’ perception of the unproctored online assessments. Methods:  A survey questionnaire was disseminated through Google forms to all MBBS students of SMDC on WhatsApp. Consent to take part in the survey was added to the questionnaire and students consenting to be a part of the survey were requested to fill in the questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of closed ended as well as open-ended questions. The data was analyzed by IBM SPSS 20. Results:  Network issues are believed to be a major issue in taking online tests (83%) and 45% of the students feel it is more difficult to take an online test. Fifty-eight percent of the students feel it is easy to cheat on online tests. A considerable number of students (P = 0.00) believe that MCQS are more reliable than SEQs. Conclusion:  The results of this study showed that students do not consider online tests as reliable and effective as classroom tests because of network issues, and unconducive environment at home, limited time, and academic dishonesty. However, if they are unavoidable, students would be more receptive to MCQs than SEQs. KEYWORDS: Reliability, cheating, effectiveness, online assessment  

Improved Accelerated Systems, Applications and Products Asap Methodology for Enterprise Resource Planning Erp Implementation

The organizations are using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to run the business, services, human resources, and manages back-office workflow. ERP system is dynamic, complex, larger in nature and used for the implementation of technological and organizational interactions. In ERP implementation, two types of approaches are used including Big bang approach (traditional) and Agile approach. ASAP is a form of Big bang approach of software development, which highly focuses on documentation, more suitable for stable requirements and difficult to manage change. ASAP methodology works in phases including Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation and Go live and Support. Business blueprint is a critical phase where business requirements are analyzed and documented in AS-IS process. During the AS-IS process users provide the requirements and vendor map these requirements in TO-BE with the help of IT experts. At start, lack of the domain understanding of the end user may lead to vague and incomplete requirements. This situation creates deadlock between the user and vendor which delays the process, increase the cost and disturb the schedule. Moreover, due to the conventional nature of ASAP methodology, it becomes difficult to manage change at later stages of software development. SCRUM, being one of the major forms of Agile, provides support for change acceptance during and after development. SCRUM also provides practices for better requirements management at different stages of development. We have proposed an improved and hybrid methodology which will ensure the correctness of requirements capture. For this, we have investigated the issues attached with the ASAP methodology due to which, vague and incomplete requirements are generated. We have introduced suitable practices of Scrum to minimize the shortcomings of conventional ASAP methodology. The proposed solution has been validated using case study of GEPCO (Gujranwala Electric Power Company) ERP project. This case study has compared the productivity and defect occurrence in Blueprint phase using conventional ASAP and Hybrid ASAP methodology.