e-Assessment of Extended Answer and Essay Questions
Few paper-based summative examinations are composed of atomic, closed form assessment units, such as Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ). Rather, they typically consist of questions requiring short answer, extended answer, and essay type answers...
e-Assessment of Short-Answer Questions
Short-answer free-text questions, a favourite tool of teachers and examiners alike, can now be computer marked by natural language based assessment engines which aim to mimic human marking of free-text. But what are the capabilities and limitations of computerised marking of short-answer questions ?
e-Assessment of Medical Knowledge
Assessment of medical, veterinary, or dental knowledge has traditionally relied on short-answer free-text questions, because they effectively assess understanding without offering prompts or clues. These questions can now be computer marked by natural language based assessment engines which aim to mimic human marking of free-text.
JISC Review of Advanced e-Assessment Techniques
IAT's free-text marking technology is highlighted in the JISC Review of Advanced e-Assessment Techniques
Investigating the Use of Short Answer Free Text Questions for Online Interactive Assessment
Poster outlining the Open University's work using short-answer free-text questions for formative and summative assessment. Developed using FreeText Author.
e-Assessment for learning? The potential of short-answer free-text questions with tailored feedback
A natural language based system has been used to author and mark short-answer free-text assessment tasks. Students attempt the questions online and are given tailored and relatively detailed feedback on incorrect and incomplete responses, and have the opportunity to repeat the task immediately so as to learn from the feedback provided. The answer matching has been developed in the light of student responses to the questions. A small number of the questions are now in low-stakes summative use, alongside other e-assessment tasks and tutor-marked assignments, to give students instantaneous feedback on constructed response items, to help them to monitor their progress and to encourage dialogue with their tutor. The answer matching has been demonstrated to be of similar or greater accuracy than specialist human markers. Students have been observed attempting the questions and have been seen to respond in differing ways to both the questions themselves and the feedback provided. We discuss features of appropriate items for assessment of this type.
Assessment of Medical Knowledge Using Automatically Marked Short Answer Questions at The University of Dundee
Winner of the e-Assessment Scotland Summative e-Assessment Award 2009. Poster outlining the Dundee Progress Test, developed and delivered on ExamOnline. Presented at "e-Assessment Scotland: Strategies across Sectors" - Dundee, 25th September 2009.
A Comparison of Electronic and Human Marking of Key Feature Examinations in Undergraduate Medical Students
Poster outlining the early work into key feature problems at Keele University School of Medicine, under development using FreeText Author. Presented at "eLearning in Health: working together to enhance learning" - University of Warwick, 2009.
Computer Based Testing of Medical Knowledge
Paper outlining the early development of the Dundee Progress Test of medical Knowledge. This test is now delivered on ExamOnline. Paper presented at CAA conference Loughborough July 2003.
Computerised Marking of Short-Answer Free-Text Responses
Paper outlining the early development of IAT's free-text marking technology. Presented at the Manchester IAEA conference in October 2003.
Towards Robust Computerised Marking of Free-Text Responses
Paper outlining the early development of IAT's free-text marking technology. Paper presented at CAA conference Loughborough July 2002
