Title :
An eMarking Tool for Paper Based Evaluations
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Eng. & Sci., Adolfo Ibanez Univ., Santiago, Chile
Abstract :
The importance of formative assessment in higher education is agreed among researchers, but marking this type of assessment is a heavy burden. Computer-based assessment and on-screen marking tools are attempts to overcome this burden, but while the former is not suitable for handwritten answers, the latter requires commercial OCR software. This paper describes the design and development of an eMarking tool to support the printing, digitalization and marking of paper based evaluations based on open source software.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; distance learning; educational administrative data processing; further education; optical character recognition; public domain software; commercial OCR software; computer-based assessment; digitalization; e-marking tool; formative assessment; handwritten answers; higher education; on-screen marking tools; open source software; paper-based evaluations; Educational institutions; Educational technology; Portable document format; Reliability; Software; Writing; e-marking; e-marking tool; evaluations; online learning; open source;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Rome
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1642-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2012.221
