Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine the impacts of paper based, web based and mobile based assessment on the achievement of the students in the internet assisted instruction. A further investigation was also performed to find out perceptions of the students on the delivery mode of the assessment. 2*3 factorial design was used in the study.  Thirty eight students who formed experimental and control group, attended the study for 3 weeks. The findings of the study revealed that there was no significant difference between the achievement level of the students who took paper, web and mobile based assessment and the students who took only paper based test. However, a significant difference was found between the scores of the test taken in the second week and those of the others. Finally, it was found that students had positive perceptions on web and mobile based test due to the ease of use, comprehensive and instant feedback. Besides, the most favored test was web based test and the least favored test was paper based test.

Key words: Paper based test, web based test, mobile based test, achievement, perceptions, internet assisted instruction.