{"title":"Connecting the dots: Web-based assessment platforms and students’ satisfaction","authors":"Mohammad I. Merhi, A. Meisami","doi":"10.1080/08832323.2022.2065229","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study is one of the first research attempts to examine students’ satisfaction with web-based assessment platforms. Using the self-determination theory, the research model examines the intermediate role of autonomy and competency. We gathered our data from a survey of 324 business students at one of the Midwestern American institutions who used McGraw-Hill Connect. PLS-SEM analytical procedures were used for testing and validating the hypotheses. The data show that competency, autonomy, quality, and feedback have a significant impact on students’ satisfaction. Functionality, quality, and feedback are the antecedents to autonomy and competence. The relationship between functionality and satisfaction is fully mediated by competency. Implications for research and practice are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47318,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education for Business","volume":"98 1","pages":"126 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Education for Business","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08832323.2022.2065229","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract This study is one of the first research attempts to examine students’ satisfaction with web-based assessment platforms. Using the self-determination theory, the research model examines the intermediate role of autonomy and competency. We gathered our data from a survey of 324 business students at one of the Midwestern American institutions who used McGraw-Hill Connect. PLS-SEM analytical procedures were used for testing and validating the hypotheses. The data show that competency, autonomy, quality, and feedback have a significant impact on students’ satisfaction. Functionality, quality, and feedback are the antecedents to autonomy and competence. The relationship between functionality and satisfaction is fully mediated by competency. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Education for Business is for those educating tomorrow''s businesspeople. The journal primarily features basic and applied research-based articles in entrepreneurship, accounting, communications, economics, finance, information systems, management, marketing, and other business disciplines. Along with the focus on reporting research within traditional business subjects, an additional expanded area of interest is publishing articles within the discipline of entrepreneurship. Articles report successful innovations in teaching and curriculum development at the college and postgraduate levels. Authors address changes in today''s business world and in the business professions that are fundamentally influencing the competencies that business graduates need. JEB also offers a forum for new theories and for analyses of controversial issues. Articles in the Journal fall into the following categories: Original and Applied Research; Editorial/Professional Perspectives; and Innovative Instructional Classroom Projects/Best Practices. Articles are selected on a blind peer-reviewed basis. Original and Applied Research - Articles published feature the results of formal research where findings have universal impact. Editorial/Professional Perspective - Articles published feature the viewpoint of primarily the author regarding important issues affecting education for business. Innovative Instructional Classroom Projects/Best Practices - Articles published feature the results of instructional experiments basically derived from a classroom project conducted at one institution by one or several faculty.