Computer Aided Assessment and its Situation in Higher Education: A Case Study from the Islamic Azad University in Iran

Author

Honarmand, Maryam

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput., Islamic Azad Univ., Zahedan

fYear

2009

fDate

3-5 April 2009

Firstpage

736

Lastpage

739

Abstract

As growing of Internet and e-learning in our country (Iran) and needing e-assessment as vital element of e-learning, it is possible to take test through preparing electronic assessment. In these systems, each lecturer prepares questions and save them in database system. Then students can connect to system and by entering the password and username attend in the exam. And finally they aware from their test result. The purpose of performing this kind of exams is using the computer to take a test in paperless form. In this paper, at first e-learning, e-assessment and its advantages and disadvantages are introduced. Then we illustrate how we implement e-assessment in Islamic Azad University in Iran which is based of synchronous and asynchronous models, and finally the problems of these kinds of assessment will be discussed.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; Internet; computer aided assessment; database system; e-learning; electronic assessment; higher education; Automatic control; Built-in self-test; Computer aided analysis; Computer science education; Database systems; Electronic equipment testing; Electronic learning; Information management; Internet; Performance evaluation; E-learning; asynchronous; computer aided assessment; higher education; synchronous;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Management and Engineering, 2009. ICIME '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3595-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIME.2009.137

Filename

5077132