Item Banking: Interactive Testing and Self-Assessment
By: edited by Dieudonnè A. Leclercq, James E. Bruno
Contributors: Bruno, James E.
Series: NATO ASI Series, Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences -- 112; NATO ASI series -- 112.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9783642634444; 9783642580338
Subjects: Information storage and retrieval systems; Computer science
Description: Assessment has long been recognized as a key feature in learning efficacy, especially through formative evaluation. Item banking, the storage and classification of test items, is an essential part of systematic assessment. This volume is based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshop held as part of the Special Programme on Advanced Educational Technology. The workshop brought together scholars from around the world to discuss and critically analyze the issues and problems associated with Subjective Probability Measurement (SPM) or the more generic research area called self-assessment. Recent advances in computer technology (expert systems, interactive video disks, and hypermedia) along with the developing sophistication of self-assessment scoring systems based on SPM made this conference particularly important and timely. The book is divided into three main parts: - The input: item banking and hypermedia - The process: subjective probabilities - The output: teaching and learning feedbacks. In summary, although SPM is a difficult theoretical concept for most educators to comprehend, the sophisticated nature of modern computer systems coupled with comprehensive formative and summative evaluation and self-assessment systems make SPM transparent to the user.
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