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Using Interactive Computer-Based Assessment to Support Beginning Distance Learners of Science
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Jordan, Sally – Open Learning, 2011
Interactive computer-marked assignments (iCMAs) are in use on a range of Science Faculty level 1 modules at the Open University UK, alongside tutor-marked assignments, for summative and formative purposes. They are also used diagnostically to help prospective students to make an appropriate choice of starting point. iCMAs have been very well…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Computer Assisted Testing, Distance Education, Science Education
E-Assessment for Learning? The Potential of Short-Answer Free-Text Questions with Tailored Feedback
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Jordan, Sally; Mitchell, Tom – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2009
A natural language based system has been used to author and mark short-answer free-text assessment tasks. Students attempt the questions online and are given tailored and relatively detailed feedback on incorrect and incomplete responses, and have the opportunity to repeat the task immediately so as to learn from the feedback provided. The answer…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Test Items, Natural Language Processing, Teaching Methods
Assessment for Learning: Pushing the Boundaries of Computer-Based Assessment
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Jordan, Sally – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2009
Feedback on assessment tasks has an important part to play in underpinning student learning. Online assessment enables instantaneous feedback to be given so that the student can act on it immediately. However, concern has been expressed that e-assessment tasks (especially multiple-choice questions) can encourage surface-learning. Several projects…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Feedback (Response), Accuracy, Computer Uses in Education