Curriculum-Guided Crowd-Sourcing of Assessments for Primary Schools in a Developing Country

Success of Wikipedia has opened a number of possibilities for crowd sourcing knowledge. However, not all crowd sourcing initiatives are successful. This paper presents a preliminary study to determine if teachers in a developing country are able to create quality multiple-choice questions for primary school students. In addition, an adoption model is developed and evaluated to ascertain if the teachers would actually contribute to such a Wiki. Results are that a reasonable number of teachers are able to formulate quality questions in Science and English and that there is a strong intention to use such a system. However, there is no obvious relationship between the intention to use and an ability to pose good assessments.