Use of Online Assessment to Enhance Teaching and Learning: The PASS-IT Project

Abstract

This article describes a recent collaborative project (PASS-IT) which investigated the use of online assessment in secondary and further education in Scotland. The aim of PASS-IT was to explore the potential of formative and summative assessment in secondary education, and to build on previous research into the applicability and validity of online assessments. An overview of the project is given. Examples of online questions are provided in section 2 with a discussion of some of the issues and benefits. Section 3 outlines the main research findings of the project, which provide evidence for the validity of online assessments.

An Intelligent Mathematics Assessment System

“…In recent years, lots of specialist computer aided assessment systems have used an existing CAS, such as Maxima, Maple or Mathemtica, to provide tools to assess mathematical expressions as answers ( [3], [4], [6]). …”

“…A Web-based intelligent mathematics assessment system is a part of education system which is extremely useful to assess the ability of students [7]. In the past ten years many research institutes and companies have developed a lot of computer aided assessment (CAA) systems( [2], [4], [6]). However some primary problems have not been solved ideally in these systems, such as automatic generation of questions, well display and convenient input of mathematical content, intelligent answer checking.…”