University Teachers and Students’ Perceptions on The Use of Formative Assessment Tools in Online Teaching: Matches and Mismatches.

The Covid-19 pandemic outbreak has impacted seriously to all fields of life including educational sector. The practice of teaching and learning has been forced to switch to online mode as the primary instruction in education globally and particularly in Vietnamese higher education sector. This was done as an attempt to keep up with the learning curriculum as well as to keep safe for educational stakeholders. When teaching and learning online, both teachers and learners have to deal with several problems, which might have negative impacts on their academic performances, especially relating to the subject grades. Hence, there has been a growing concern of having proper tools to assess students’ performances during the online education. A study with the participation of 80 students and 25 teachers was carried out at a university in order to find out the perceptions of teachers and students on the use of digital assessment tools and to compare the matches and mismatches towards the use of these apparatuses. A questionnaire was delivered to participants to collect ideas of using digital assessments, then interviews were done to dig into their views. The findings revealed certain gaps between both sides’ opinions and also brought about some similar views. The findings of the research provide valuable insight to encourage university teachers to search for multiple online assessment modes to have more precise evaluation on students’ performances and to satisfy students’ expectations especially when it comes to the aspect of testing and assessment.