Service-oriented flexible and interoperable assessment: towards a standardised e-assessment system
Free-text answers assessment has been a field of interest during the last 50 years. Several free-text answers assessment tools underpinned by different techniques have been developed. In most cases, the complexity of the underpinned techniques has caused those tools to be designed and developed as s...
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| description | Free-text answers assessment has been a field of interest during the last 50 years. Several free-text answers assessment tools underpinned by different techniques have been developed. In most cases, the complexity of the underpinned techniques has caused those tools to be designed and developed as stand-alone tools. The rationales behind using computers to assist learning assessment are mainly to save time and cost, as well as to reduce staff workload. However, utilising free-text answers assessment tools separately form the learning environment may increase the staff workload and increase the complexity of the assessment process. Therefore, free-text answers scorers have to have a flexible design to be integrated within the context of the e-assessment system architectures taking advantages of software-as-a-service architecture. Moreover, flexible and interoperable e-assessment architecture has to be utilised in order to facilitate this integration. This paper discusses the importance of flexible and interoperable e-assessment. Moreover, it proposes a service-oriented flexible and interoperable architecture for futuristic e-assessment systems. Nevertheless, it shows how such architecture can foster the e-assessment process in general and the free-text answers assessment in particular. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-337702017-09-13T16:08:47Z Service-oriented flexible and interoperable assessment: towards a standardised e-assessment system AL-Smadi, M. Guetl, Christian SaaS complexity learning tools e-assessment electronic assessment software as a service computers visualisation software engineering interoperable architecture answer scorers interoperable assessment SOA learning assessments middleware interoperability service-oriented architecture free-text answers stand-alone tools learning environments continuing education standards standardised systems staff workloads automatic free-text evaluation workload reduction flexible design time saving flexible assessment life-long learning cost saving Free-text answers assessment has been a field of interest during the last 50 years. Several free-text answers assessment tools underpinned by different techniques have been developed. In most cases, the complexity of the underpinned techniques has caused those tools to be designed and developed as stand-alone tools. The rationales behind using computers to assist learning assessment are mainly to save time and cost, as well as to reduce staff workload. However, utilising free-text answers assessment tools separately form the learning environment may increase the staff workload and increase the complexity of the assessment process. Therefore, free-text answers scorers have to have a flexible design to be integrated within the context of the e-assessment system architectures taking advantages of software-as-a-service architecture. Moreover, flexible and interoperable e-assessment architecture has to be utilised in order to facilitate this integration. This paper discusses the importance of flexible and interoperable e-assessment. Moreover, it proposes a service-oriented flexible and interoperable architecture for futuristic e-assessment systems. Nevertheless, it shows how such architecture can foster the e-assessment process in general and the free-text answers assessment in particular. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33770 10.1504/IJCEELL.2011.042789 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd fulltext |
| spellingShingle | SaaS complexity learning tools e-assessment electronic assessment software as a service computers visualisation software engineering interoperable architecture answer scorers interoperable assessment SOA learning assessments middleware interoperability service-oriented architecture free-text answers stand-alone tools learning environments continuing education standards standardised systems staff workloads automatic free-text evaluation workload reduction flexible design time saving flexible assessment life-long learning cost saving AL-Smadi, M. Guetl, Christian Service-oriented flexible and interoperable assessment: towards a standardised e-assessment system |
| title | Service-oriented flexible and interoperable assessment: towards a standardised e-assessment system |
| title_full | Service-oriented flexible and interoperable assessment: towards a standardised e-assessment system |
| title_fullStr | Service-oriented flexible and interoperable assessment: towards a standardised e-assessment system |
| title_full_unstemmed | Service-oriented flexible and interoperable assessment: towards a standardised e-assessment system |
| title_short | Service-oriented flexible and interoperable assessment: towards a standardised e-assessment system |
| title_sort | service-oriented flexible and interoperable assessment: towards a standardised e-assessment system |
| topic | SaaS complexity learning tools e-assessment electronic assessment software as a service computers visualisation software engineering interoperable architecture answer scorers interoperable assessment SOA learning assessments middleware interoperability service-oriented architecture free-text answers stand-alone tools learning environments continuing education standards standardised systems staff workloads automatic free-text evaluation workload reduction flexible design time saving flexible assessment life-long learning cost saving |
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