ABSTRACT
The current investigation reflects on the insufficient performance of students in virtual exams in the era of transformation of the physical mode of education to digital one due to the passive adaptation to the technical drive of the virtual environment, the tenuous command of platform’s technical language, especially in mathematics and physics exams, and the anxiety of coping with superfluous difficulties of a non-traditional exam framework. R programming and data visualization approach have been employed to highlight the seriousness of these problems and their role in causing a plausible decline in students’ exam outcome. This study also features some crucial developments that could be undertaken to battle these issues and to enhance the virtual exam performance in the future.
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Nazish Shahid
Nazish Shahid was a Fulbright Fellow in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, USA (2016–2017) OR Nazish Shahid is a former Fulbright Fellow in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, USA (2016–2017).