Enhancing Educational Opportunities with Computer-Mediated Assessment Feedback

Enhancing Educational Opportunities with Computer-Mediated Assessment Feedback

As internet technologies make their way into developing areas, so too does the possibility of education and training being delivered to the people living in those previously unserved areas. The growing catalogue of free, high quality courseware, when combined with the newly acquired means of delivery, creates the potential for millions of people in the developing world to acquire a good educati...

Information Technologies: Opportunities for Advancing Educational Assessment

Computer-mediated Negotiations: Review and Research Opportunities

The rapid growth in computer and communication technologies has vastly expanded the potential scope and impact of computer systems designed to improve negotiation process and outcomes. Negotiation Support Systems (NSS) are evolving in a number of innovative directions. In this review article, we explore several related questions: (1) What is an NSS? (2) How have NSS evolved in the past? (3) Wha...

Computer-based assessment: a versatile educational tool

There are many types of Computer Based Assessment in use today in Higher Education, from formative self-tests to summative final exams. CBA is used in various ways as an integral part of many currently used Computer Aided Learning environments. This paper surveys some of the reasons for using computers for assessment and some of the types of test in use, including evidence that coverage can ext...

Promoting Interaction in Large Classes with Computer-mediated Feedback

Eliciting student participation in large college classes is difficult yet critical to learning. This paper describes a design experiment with the Classroom Feedback System (CFS), a computer-mediated feedback system for promoting class interaction. We delineate challenges to interaction based on successive background and pilot studies. CFS addresses these challenges by enabling students to post ...