Aim
To provide quick feedback to students on exam results whilst introducing them to the assessment processes of HE; and to save staff considerable time marking scripts.
Audience
350 year 1 students in Events Management and Tourism Management
Problem
To meet a specific strategy target to expend the use of computer aided assessment for formative and summative assessment. The university wanted to introduce rigid deadlines whilst giving early and rapid feedback.
Solution
Replace paper based exams with summative computer assisted assessments every two weeks.
Design
Assessments were randomly generated from question banks by the VLE.
Training
Little additional training for tutor to generate question banks using Universities existing VLE WebCT and some team members used Respondus to write questions. Students and tutors were familiar with the VLE.
Method Delivery
Assessments were delivered via university IT in exam like conditions using the WebCT VLE
Benefits
This simply approach to CAA used existing key technologies. Marks for all 350 students were submitted within three hours compared to the 120 hrs it would take to manually mark paper based equivalent papers. Although an up fronted investment in time is required the costs of time can be realised very quickly once the assessment questions have been created. Exam banks question could be reused. Improved averaged exam scores by 10%. Those students taking advantage of the previous years exam papers improved their exam mark by 15% in comparison to those who did not.
So what is innovative about this case study?
1. Time for feeding back results to students and tutors was significantly reduced.
2. The rigid exam deadlines set for each summative assessment enabled students to successfully engage with the rigours of University deadlines.
3. To ensure a good return on effort is made CAA works best in modules that have large numbers of students.
I am not sure how much the above statements describe the innovation described in this case study?
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