Factors Affecting High School students’ Remote Online Exam Results in Vietnam due to the COVID-19 Pandemic

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has hit education globally hard. Students could not go to school due to the social distancing measures taken by governments to prevent the spread of the pandemic. Therefore, in order to ensure that the learning process of students is maintained, online learning has become the key solution for this circumstance. As a result, periodic testing for students has also been changed into the remote online exams (ROEs). While the benefits of ROEs are widely recognized, the urgent use of this test presents problems and challenges for both students and teachers. This research aimed to explore a number of factors that may affect the results of online remote tests performed by high school students in Vietnam, thereby examining how those factors affect their test results compared to the traditional testing method. By using exploratory factor analysis (EFA), the research identified five potential factors affecting the online remote exam results of Vietnamese high school students with 17 items that met statistical standards, namely: Attitude towards ROEs, Preparedness, Anxiety, Technical Problems, Perceived ROEs Software. The analysis results of the linear regression model show that the only factor namely attitudes towards ROEs is positively correlated with their exam results. The results of this study not only provide a foundation for the online education and online examination research community, but also provide recommendations for educational practitioners, school administrators, and technical service providers on how to effectively support the remote online examination of high school students in Vietnam