Kahoot! A Comprehensive Formative Assessment Etool in Medical Education: A SWOT Analysis

Online learning has become the norm for student's world-over, and educationists have to come up with new strategies to maintain student engagement and interest. Gamification of education is a promising approach to address the decline in learners' motivation and engagement. Gamification also facilitates formative assessment while promoting student learning. Among the many virtual educational tools that have emerged over the last decade, Kahoot! has been shown to be a popular choice among learners. It is a game-based student response system that has extensively been used across educational institutions as well as teaching faculty involved in medical education. Evidence suggests that Kahoot! Sessions are more effective than traditional methods to motivate students to study, and it is a promising tool for formative assessment in medical education. But there is a need for a realistic recognition of the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT analysis) of using Kahoot! as a formative assessment e-tool. This paper describes a SWOT analysis that requires an examination of existing design trends and features with the aim of visualizing future applications, projecting challenges, limits, and expectations, and devise possible ways to increase the potential use of technology in medical education in relation to formative assessment.