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The Scottish Computer Assisted Assessment Network
conference contribution
posted on 2006-05-18, 17:09 authored by Niall SclaterThe Scottish Computer Assisted Assessment Network (SCAAN) [1] was set up in
early 1999 to promote the use of online assessment in higher education
institutions throughout Scotland. Funded by the Scottish Higher Education
Funding Council under its Webtools initiative, SCAAN is a collaboration between
three universities: Glasgow, Heriot-Watt and Strathclyde. Each of these
establishments is implementing a particular computer-based assessment tool.
Glasgow uses TRIADS, an Authorware-based multimedia assessment engine,
built at the University of Derby. Heriot-Watt and Strathclyde have their own webbased
assessment engines. It was decided that the dissemination and evaluation
of three separate engines would be likely to result in generic deliverables, more
useful to the higher education community than the promotion and analysis of a
single engine.
This paper discusses the project in general and focuses in particular on the
deliverables produced to date. These are:
• a requirements analysis of a generic (not engine-dependent) online
assessment engine, specifying the required functions;
• a technical issues report which enables potential users to compare the
engines and make informed decisions on the choice of engine;
• and a Document Type Definition (DTD) for a generic assessment containing
core question types, taking into account the recent release of the Instructional
Management Systems (IMS) specification for assessment, with the ultimate
aim that all engines can be built in an extensible and interoperable manner.
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- CAA Conference
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SCLATER, N., 2000. The Scottish Computer Assisted Assessment Network. Proceedings of the 4th CAA Conference, Loughborough: Loughborough UniversityPublisher
© Loughborough UniversityPublication date
2000Notes
This is a conference paper.Language
- en
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