Kahoot: A Promising Tool for Formative Assessment in Medical Education

Introduction: The main purpose of formative assessment is to improve students’ learning. The formative assessment should be seen as a part of the learning process. Game-based learning has become more common in the education and one of the emerging game-based learning platform used in education institutions is Kahoot. The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of using Kahoot as a formative assessment tool in undergraduate medical education and identifies association between gender and their preference of this platform. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out on year 1 medical students in USM School of Medical Sciences. 113 participants took part. The study used survey Kahoot platform. It consists of 12-item questions. Data were collected via Kahoot survey platform. Result: A total of 113 subjects participated in this study. 36 (31.9%) males and 77 (68.1%) females, 66 (58.4%) were Malays and the rest were non-Malay. All the items received at least medium score of 3 except for items 3, 9 and 12 in which these three items received median score of 4. There were significant medium scores difference between male and female students for item 2 and item 6. Conclusion: Kahoot is an innovative way of formative assessment platform. This tool is feasible and practical and it makes learning fun and enjoyable thus motivates the students to learn.