An eMarking Tool for Paper Based Evaluations

Author

Villalon, Jorge

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng. & Sci., Adolfo Ibanez Univ., Santiago, Chile

fYear

2012

fDate

4-6 July 2012

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

45

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1642-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2012.221

Filename

6268031