The SCHOLAR Programme in Scottish education

This paper describes the SCHOLAR Programme based at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. SCHOLAR has delivered electronic resources to thousands of pupils in Scottish secondary education in biology, chemistry, computing, mathematics and physics at the level of Scottish Higher and Advanced Higher. At the heart of the SCHOLAR delivery is the automatic assessment system called CUE. The assessment engine CUE is the result of 18 years of research in action and a fruitful collaboration between academia and commercial companies. The formative assessment policy for SCHOLAR is described as are the features of CUE chosen to deliver it.