TY - GEN
T1 - Efficiency, challenges, and limitations of web-based exams for astronomy courses
AU - Al-Shidhani, Saleh Said
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - As educational institutes drifting to more dependency on online learning, the efficiency and limitations of Webbased exams were questioned. Online exams were used as continuous assessment for large classes. The fidelity of web-based tests was investigated from several aspects, as an alternative tool to traditional exams, fulfilling the course conceptual nature and probing higher levels of spatial thinking, reasoning and imagination. Online questionnaire with several measures was used to survey students' perceptions and preferences. The paper also reports findings regarding preparation time, ease of use, system stability, environmental settings and other requirements. New solutions were proposed to overcome students' bad behaviours as well as to achieve a balance between students' demanded flexibility and the demands of exam quality-assurance. The demands of informative and summative question data banks and analyzing questions in terms of difficulties and vagueness were described.
AB - As educational institutes drifting to more dependency on online learning, the efficiency and limitations of Webbased exams were questioned. Online exams were used as continuous assessment for large classes. The fidelity of web-based tests was investigated from several aspects, as an alternative tool to traditional exams, fulfilling the course conceptual nature and probing higher levels of spatial thinking, reasoning and imagination. Online questionnaire with several measures was used to survey students' perceptions and preferences. The paper also reports findings regarding preparation time, ease of use, system stability, environmental settings and other requirements. New solutions were proposed to overcome students' bad behaviours as well as to achieve a balance between students' demanded flexibility and the demands of exam quality-assurance. The demands of informative and summative question data banks and analyzing questions in terms of difficulties and vagueness were described.
KW - Astronomy learning
KW - E-assessments
KW - E-learning
KW - Higher education
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77953968682
SN - 9780889868045
T3 - Proceedings of the 13th IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, IMSA 2009
SP - 39
EP - 46
BT - Proceedings of the 13th IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, IMSA 2009
T2 - 13th IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, IMSA 2009
Y2 - 17 August 2009 through 19 August 2009
ER -