e-Assessment in Higher Education
Overview
A number of technical and policy issues are of concern within the University around e-assessment, including: an increasing need for interoperability; migration from legacy systems; quality assurance through item and test statistics; AER (additional educational requirements) and accessibility issues; provision of mathematical notation in science and engineering questions; and, most importantly, student and staff engagement with the relevant technologies (such as Web 2.0 and mobile devices) and services. The University seeks funding to accelerate the process of both implementing an open source, service based solution to institutional e-assessment and addressing institutional change by engaging academics and students in co-design and co-deployment.
Aims and objectives
The EASiHE project intends to provide an open source solution for formative assessment by integrating services currently available within the JISC eFramework.
Project methodology
The project will: take the JISC-funded ‘EdSpace’ repository and elements of the ‘Faroes’ project to provide ‘Web 2.0’ content and services to users; incorporate the IMS Question and Test interoperability standard by integrating the ‘AsDel’ assessment delivery engine, integrating the ‘MathQTI’ standard, and providing QTI migration services sourced from the ‘MCQFM’
project; ensure the system is informed by the ‘LexDis’ project for accessibility; include relevant lessons from the ‘mPLAT’ and ‘Remora’ projects in providing for mobile learning and assessment; and incorporate a relatively underutilised and ‘new’ form of assessment, peer assessment, based upon the ‘Peer Pigeon’ project.
Anticipated outputs and outcomes
The main deliverables include: the provision of an open source e-assessment repository: services for the contribution and migration of assessment questions, tests, and peer assessments; services for the delivery of tests and peer assessments; documentation supporting the pedagogical design of e-assessments at higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy; and dissemination material for the wider sector dealing with institutional change using the processes of co-design and co-deployment. As partners in the Support Project, the project will be actively involved in producing briefing materials and training activities for exemplary practice.
Technology / Standards used
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QTI
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OAI
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eFramework
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Web2.0
Lead Institution
Project partners
Project Staff
Project Manager
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Dr David Bacigalupo, University of Southampton, Tel: +44 (0)2380 595 947 Learning Societies Lab, School of Electronics & Computer Science iSolutions
D.Bacigalupo@soton.ac.uk
Project Team