Computer Assisted Assessment
Handout by Pauline McCormack, University of Newcastle
Teaching the Arts & Humanities with C&IT workshop, University of Durham, 14/7/99

Teaching Examples

French -- basic quiz

http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dml0www5/euroquiz.html

Maths in Economics -- provides feedback

http://www.le.ac.uk/economics/teach/EC103/ume_q1.html

Life and death in barbarian Europe -- uses images

http://www.le.ac.uk/ar/sas11/AR204/quiz2.html

Leicester grammar project -- assessment attached to a tutorial

http://www.le.ac.uk/english/jmc21/legp/index.html

Virus replication tutorial -- uses Javascript

http://www-micro.msb.le.ac.uk/Tutorials/balti/balti.html

Question Generators

CASTLE -- create your own test

http://www.le.ac.uk/castle/tools/upgrade/create.html

Question Generator -- create your own test

http://www.herts.ac.uk/ltdu/development/question_generator

Medweb -- example of a question bank (try search term 'cell')

http://medweb.bham.ac.uk/caa/mcq/

Web Test -- tests created each time the page is loaded (on the 'fly')

http://flex-learn.ma.hw.ac.uk/what.html

WebCT -- allows free text responses

http://www.webct.com

General Guidance

National CAA Centre

http://caacentre.ac.uk/

CAA survey -- comparison of free and commercial MCQ products

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/%7Entdf/survey/caa.ht


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Pauline McCormack
LT@N, Learning Technology at Newcastle
University of Newcastle
pauline.mccormack@ncl.ac.uk