Category Archives: e-assessment

CAA or CAA?

We use ‘e-assessment’ to mean different things, but we also use a variety of terms to describe e-assessment! We have CAA (computer-aided assessment), or is it CAA (computer-assisted assessment); CMA (computer-marked assessment), or is it CMA (computer-mediated assessment). 

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What is e-assessment?

Again, I feel I ought to define my terms before going any further. The broadest definition of e-assessment encompasses the use of computers for any assessment-related activity, thus it might include the electronic submission of tutor-marked assignments, the marking of … Continue reading

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What is formative e-assessment and when does it happen?

I’ve just read a paper by Pachler et al (Computers & Education 54 (2010) pp715-721) which describes aspects of the JISC-funded project ‘Scoping a vision of formative e-assessment’. The paper starts by considering different perspectives on the ‘nature and value of formative … Continue reading

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