Tales from the Exam Room: Trialing an E-Exam System for Computer Education and Design and Technology Students
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School of Education, Edith Cowan University, Mt Lawley 6050, Australia
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School of Education, Curtin University, Bentley 6102, Australia
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Educ. Sci. 2018, 8(4), 188; https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci8040188
Received: 4 September 2018
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Revised: 22 October 2018
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Accepted: 23 October 2018
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Published: 28 October 2018
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Project and Design-Based Learning in Electrical and Computer Engineering for K-16 Students and Teachers)
The Centre for Schooling and Learning Technologies (CSaLT) at Edith Cowan University (ECU) was asked in 2016 to be the Western Australian arm of a national e-exam project. This project used a bespoke exam system installed on a USB-drive to deliver what would have been traditional paper-based exams in an enclosed computer-based environment that was isolated from the internet and any resources other than those provided by the lecturer. This paper looks at the two exams chosen by the Western Australian group for the trial; a programming exam for pre-service computing teachers and an occupational health and safety exam for pre-service design and technology teachers. Both groups were drawn from the Graduate Diploma in Education course at ECU. The paper looks at the nature of the exam environment and the procedure for creating e-exams. It also outlines the exam procedures used and examines the feedback provided by both the lecturers and students involved. Conclusions are drawn about the suitability of the e-exam system and improvements are recommended as well as a discussion about e-exams and digital assessment more generally.
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Keywords:
E-exam; digital assessment; computer education; design and technology
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Pagram, J.; Cooper, M.; Jin, H.; Campbell, A. Tales from the Exam Room: Trialing an E-Exam System for Computer Education and Design and Technology Students. Educ. Sci. 2018, 8, 188. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci8040188
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Pagram J, Cooper M, Jin H, Campbell A. Tales from the Exam Room: Trialing an E-Exam System for Computer Education and Design and Technology Students. Education Sciences. 2018; 8(4):188. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci8040188
Chicago/Turabian StylePagram, Jeremy, Martin Cooper, Huifen Jin, and Alistair Campbell. 2018. "Tales from the Exam Room: Trialing an E-Exam System for Computer Education and Design and Technology Students" Education Sciences 8, no. 4: 188. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci8040188
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