The Impact of Online Instruction During the Covid Pandemic on MFTB and CBE Testing Outcomes

William  Hahn,; Chris  Fairchild,

The Impact of Online Instruction During the Covid Pandemic on MFTB and CBE Testing Outcomes

Discipline: Education

Abstract:

The present study examines how online instruction during the COVID pandemic impacted learning and performs a partial replication of a study by Hahn et al. (2012), which compared students’ testing outcomes of the Major Field Test in Business (MFTB) and the Comprehensive Business Exam (CBE). Our results find that online instruction during the 2020-2021 pandemic isolation period had no significant impact on pre- and post-COVID testing outcomes for either exam. It was further found that the question set employed by the CBE exam appears to have changed from the pre- to the post-COVID testing timeframes, making this exam questionable for assurance of learning purposes when comparing to prior year results.