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From the definition of E-assessment from Wikipedia, we can see the advantages of deploying an e-testing system are obvious: lower long-term cost, instant feedback, great flexibility, improved reliability and enhanced question styles. We, especially teachers, cannot refuse so many advantages here over traditional assessment. With some authoring tools, we may create high quality assessment items with IMS Question and Test Interoperability specification to evaluate students' learning progress. But here is NOT the end of E-assessment. As the assessing part of eLearning, the tests creation and participation is just the method. We really need the test results of the e-assessment to evaluate how students learnt.



This is an interesting topic as I posted "The Way Scoring Test in eLearning" days ago. Actually we believe that teachers can collect all test results manually via E-Mail. We know, it's complicated and not intuitive with enormous results data to analyze comprehensively. As I claimed in a previous training article "Online Training Needs Assessments", those educational technologies help us implement the accessing part. I completely agree that we should use extensive statistics and analysis tools, which contains valuable information based on trends analysis, and the details you can look up. Back to the beginning, these information we got really helps us evaluate the performance of eLearning, whatever how great your online courses and online assessments are.

More information about Quiz Management System for eLearning performance:
http://www.sameshow.com/quiz-creator/quiz-online-reporting-system.html

Found this while surfing my RSS feeds for all teachers to empower their classroom with emerging technologies .... Kicking off the school year: Web 2.0 Style w/ Cell Phones at The Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis. Don't just read it for fun, think it over!



Excerpt:

"Starting the school year is always crazy!

I'd like to share what we've done the first three days of school and the new things I've done this year to make teaching with Web 2.0 a little easier.

Day 1
Besides doing my usual textbook scavenger hunt (helping kids know where things are in the textbook saves a lot of time and is a great prereading strategy), my students immediately went to the wiki and completed the Google form for the first day of class survey...."

Kicking off the school year: Web 2.0 Style w/ Cell Phones
http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2008/08/kicking-off-school-year-web-20-style-w.html