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Electronic Exams
Electronic Exams: An Idea Whose Time has Come
James Harland
School of Computer Science & IT
RMIT University
19th November, 2010
Melbourne Conventicle
Electronic Exams
Writing in the Jurassic Era …
Where were you on
Monday, 3rd September, 1984?
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CS335 Formal Semantics lecture by Michael Maher
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21st Century student life
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Lecture Tutorial
Exam
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What would this look like?
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Students bring laptops to exam room NOT remote or online
Boot from a special CD or memory stick Shut off access to Internet, hard disk, … Provide all necessary software on the CD or stick Adapt Ubuntu (or a similar Linux distribution) Submit answer
On memory stick Open a special port and upload to a server
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Existing Software
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PJ Radcliffe & Heiko Rudolph, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT
Bootable CD software Used for lab exams Submit via opening a port Develop some answer processing software as well
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Existing Software
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Andrew Fluck, IT Lecturer, School of Education, University of Tasmania
Boots from a memory stick Answers recorded on the memory stick Used for exams in a variety of subjects (chemistry, music, history, law, …) Can download from http://www.eexaminations.org
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So … ?
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Potential solutions seem to exist Trials in secondary schools taking place in NSW, Norway, and probably other places
“Some IT academic should do something about this” Applied for internal funding at RMIT Run three trials in 2011 with various software Prizes ($1000? iPad?) for anyone `cracking’ the system Get experience with design of electronic exams Make user interface `idiot proof’ Develop into an ALTC application in 2011 SO WHO WOULD LIKE TO JOIN IN?
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Questions?
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