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Category Archives: e-assessment
E-assessment : Past, present and future 2
Apologies for my recent lack of activity. We have a module whose student numbers have risen from 440 to 1075, so I have been interviewing, appointing and staff developing in every available moment. Well, that and beginning to get a … Continue reading
E-assessment: past, present and future
I have recently submitted a review with the title ‘E-assessment: past, present and future’. I think it is quite good, but I don’t yet know whether others agree with me! Imagine what I felt when I realised that Thomas Hench … Continue reading
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Quotes of the day
‘We are just beginning to have a small idea of the real extent of the possibilities for online assessment.’ Howell, S. C. and Hricko, M. (eds) (2006) Online assessment and measurement: case studies from higher education, K-12 and corporate. Information … Continue reading
Maths for Science assessment – the first 10 years
Ten years ago, at the end of January 2003, 186 Open University students submitted the second online interactive end-of-module assignment (EMA) for my little 10-credit baby, S151 Maths for Science (57 brave souls had submitted the first EMA, back in … Continue reading
Twelve Pipers Piping
Day 12. Monitor and improve. One of the advantages of eAssessment (whatever you mean by that term) is the ability to monitor actual student behaviour. This is not the same as what students say they do, neither is it the same … Continue reading
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Eleven Drummers Drumming
Day 11. A broader definition of eAssessment. I can clearly remember the day, around 5 years ago, when I felt rather small at a conference because I was talking about my work with short-answer free text questions, and realised that … Continue reading
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Ten Lords a-Leaping
Day 10. Check, check and check again. So you’ve chosen your question type, written your question and feedback and constructed your answer-matching. You may even have put your questions together into a quiz or interactive computer-marked assignment (iCMA) of some … Continue reading
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Nine Ladies Dancing
Day 9. Using STACK to write questions to assess maths. There may or may not be nine ladies dancing, but there is certainly one female blogger who would happily do a little dance around her house this evening. I’ve managed … Continue reading
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Eight maids a-Milking – part 2
Day 8b. Using PMatch for short-answer free-text questions. As promised, what I’d like to do is to give you an example of the answer matching for a real question, based on real student responses.
Eight Maids a-Milking – part 1
Day 8a. Free text marking of short answer questions. I’ve already talked about the automatic marking of short answers quite a lot on this blog so today, the first day of 2013, I’d like to do two slightly different things … Continue reading