E-Assessment Systems and Online Learning with Adaptive Testing
In this paper we explain how a systematic approach to design Assessment as a Service on a cloud with SOA architecture can exploit add on functionalities like online learning with interactive assessment as a type of formative and integrative assessment for
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E-Assessment Systems and Online Learning with Adaptive Testing Marjan Gusev and Goce Armenski
Abstract In this paper we explain how a systematic approach to design Assessment as a Service on a cloud with SOA architecture can exploit add on functionalities like online learning with interactive assessment as a type of formative and integrative assessment for the learning process. The idea is realized by a system (computer based program) that systematically asks questions and leads the students towards knowledge construction and discovery. The system should be as simple as possible and intelligent enough to enable the realization of this idea. This online learning tool with adaptive testing uses software agents, where several strategies define the agent’s behavior. We observed that the strategy ‘‘3 correct answers in a row’’ performs the best. Keywords E-testing
E-learning Computer based testing
8.1 Introduction There are a lot of e-Learning software products, mainly realized as Learning Management Systems (LMS) that do not support e-Assessment and e-Testing with full coverage of features [14, 43]. Some significant examples include commercial products Blackboard [6] and WebCT [50], or open source software products, like Moodle [32], Fle3 Future Learning Environment [15], The Manhattan Virtual Classroom [10], LRN [30] etc.
M. Gusev (&) G. Armenski Faculty of Information Sciences and Computer Engineering, Ss. Cyril and Methodious University, Rugjer Boshkovikj 16, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia e-mail: [email protected] G. Armenski e-mail: [email protected]
M. Ivanovic´ and L. C. Jain (eds.), E-Learning Paradigms and Applications, Studies in Computational Intelligence 528, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-41965-2_8, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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On the other hand, there are stand-alone products and designs of e-Assessment and e-Testing that have a sophisticated set of functionalities, but lack integration and interoperability with existing products. Examples include sophisticated testing centers for professional certificates, like Prometric [38] or Pearson Vue [37] and plenty of solutions that offer different types of electronic testing, questionnaires, and surveys on Internet, such as eSurveyPro [17], eSurvey Creator [16], Free Online Surveys [21], etc. The existing LMS systems and specialized e-Testing systems are not designed to be interoperable or to act as cloud solutions and deliver Assessment as a Service, i.e. be capable to exchange tests and related data elements with other LMS systems, and therefore they can not support each other or even create new forms of efficient learning. For example, Gierlowski and Nowicki claim that vast majority of currently available electronic knowledge assessment tools are not only extremely similar but also offer strictly limited functionality [22]. In this paper we address the research problem of how e-Testing can be used efficiently in e-Learning, particularly in the construction of online adaptive learning environment
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