Software solution improving productivity and quality for big volume students' group assessment process

Abstract

The key difference between testing a small and a large group of students is typically the impossibility to use an e-assessment interface for a large group of students in one room, especially in mathematics courses. Traditional exam with written tests causes a burden on the teacher when evaluating studentś results, and a delay in releasing the results. Moreover, the detailed results and test content are not directly stored in the database for further evaluation, which is a condition for optimization of the learning environment. A new teaching model and a method of assessment with enhanced software support were designed to overcome these problems. Experimental data collected over three experimental academic years were compared to traditional assessment data to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed solutions. Results have proved that the overall productivity was significantly increased-more than eleven times without compromising quality. Internal dependencies among parameters of the automated assessment procedure were identified, analyzed and used to maximize the impact of automation, as well.