The Role of Online Diagnostic Exams on the Higher Education Students Performance

International audienceMost of the current international exams and certificates have been changed to be conducted electronically online ; and in addition to keep up with current evaluation of ICT, this mechanism is used to improve the Higher Education institutions (HEI) students performance, the online diagnostic exams maybe is the one of ICT tools that could help effectively current century students. This paper focuses on studying the role of the online diagnostic exams and its impact on HEI students' performance. The study was conducted by using survey interviews from some higher institutions teachers/students as a method to get the participants response and opinions about the main questions. The researchers collected data from a sample of universities teachers and students in HEI. The research open ended questions were distributed purposely to 30 participants in the three selected ICT universities, the selected participants were those who were more closely connected to online exams (ICDL Online Exams), the analysis is based on thematic approach. The results explained the role of this kind of diagnostic exams in the improvement of the HEI student's performance. Online Diagnostic exams allow teachers and instructors to evaluate and follow their student's academic performance online through using standard measurements. The feedback of the exams may help teachers and students to evaluate and estimate how they can improve their academic progress. Students may know their real academic situation and thus will provide them a motivation to improve and develop their academic performance according to specific standards which will give teachers/students an impression of what teachers/ students should do to meet these standards