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e-Assessment in Higher Education (EASiHE)
(this project has ended)

A number of technical and policy issues are of concern within the University around e-assessment, including:

  • an increasing need for interoperability;
  • migration from legacy systems;
  • quality assurance through item and test statistics;
  • AER (additional educational requirements) and accessibility issues;
  • provision of mathematical notation in science and engineering questions; and, most importantly,
  • student and staff engagement with the relevant technologies (such as Web 2.0 and mobile devices) and services.

The University has received funding to accelerate the process of both implementing an open source, service based solution to institutional e-assessment and addressing institutional change by engaging academics and students in co-design and co-deployment. In line with the recently introduced University e-Learning Enhancement Strategy, which places the quality of student learning as its first objective, the EASiHE project intends to provide an open source solution for formative assessment by integrating services currently available within the JISC eFramework.

The project will:

  • take the JISC-funded ‘EdSpace’ repository and elements of the ‘Faroes’ project to provide ‘Web 2.0’ content and services to users;
  • incorporate the IMS Question and Test interoperability standard by integrating the ‘AsDel’ assessment delivery engine, integrating the ‘MathQTI’ standard, and providing QTI migration services sourced from the ‘MCQFM’ project;
  • ensure the system is informed by the ‘LexDis’ project for accessibility;
  • include relevant lessons from the ‘mPLAT’ and ‘Remora’ projects in providing for mobile learning and assessment; and
  • incorporate a relatively underutilised and ‘new’ form of assessment, peer assessment, based upon the ‘Peer Pigeon’ project.

The main deliverables include:

  • the provision of an open source e-assessment repository;
  • services for the contribution and migration of assessment questions, tests, and peer assessments;
  • services for the delivery of tests and peer assessments;
  • documentation supporting the pedagogical design of e-assessments at higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy; and
  • dissemination material for the wider sector dealing with institutional change using the processes of co-design and co-deployment.

As partners in the JISC Institutional Innovation Support Project, EASiHE will be actively involved in producing briefing materials and training activities for exemplary practice.

Homepage: http://easihe.ecs.soton.ac.uk/links/index.php
Type: Normal Research Project
Research Groups: Learning Societies Lab, Electronic and Software Systems
Themes: Assessment, Technology Enhanced Learning, Accessible Technologies
Dates: 1st October 2008 to 31st March 2011

Keywords

Funding

  • JISC

Principal Investigators

Other Investigators

URI: http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/project/560
RDF: http://rdf.ecs.soton.ac.uk/project/560

More information

Associated Publications

Number of items: 5.

Bacigalupo, D., Warburton, B., Draffan, E. A., Zhang, P., Gilbert, L. and Wills, G. (2010) The EASiHE Spanish and British Sign Language Formative eAssessment Case Studies. In: CAA 2010, 20th & 21st July 2010, , Southampton, UK..

Bacigalupo, D., Warburton, B., Draffan, E. A., Zhang, P., Gilbert, L. and Wills, G. (2010) A Formative eAssessment Co-Design Case Study. In: The 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies , July 5-7, 2010 .

Zhang, P., Wills, G. and Gilbert, L. (2010) IMS QTIEngine on Android to Support Mobile Learning and Assessment. In: 2010 International Computer Assisted Assessment (CAA) Conference, 20th & 21st July 2010, Southampton, UK.

Zhang, P., Wills, G., Gilbert, L., Warburton, B. and Bacigalupo, D. (2010) IMS QTIEngine on Android to Support Offline Mobile Learning. In: The 2010 International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Administration, e-Society, e-Education, and e-Technology , January 25-27, 2010, Macau.

Cherrett, T., Wills, G., Price, J., Maynard, S. and Dror, I. E. (2009) Making Training More Cognitively Effective: Making Videos Interactive. British Journal of Educational Technology, 40 (6). pp. 1124-1134.

This list was generated on Fri Feb 10 00:58:25 2012 GMT.

Publications included from http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/view/projects/560.include.