An innovative parallel test sheet composition approach to meet multiple assessment criteria for national tests

Computers and Education

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1058-1072

  Hwang, Gwo Jen ^a   Chu, Hui Chun ^a   Yin, Peng Yeng ^b   Lin, Ji Yu ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TAINAN   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Computer assisted testing; Evaluation methodologies; Human computer interface; Media in education; Public spaces and computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER TESTING;

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA; CERTIFICATION TESTING; COMPOSITING; COMPUTER-ASSISTED TESTING; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACE; INNOVATIVE APPROACHES; KNOWLEDGE LEVELS; MEDIA IN EDUCATION; PARALLEL TESTING; PROFESSIONAL SKILLS; PUBLIC SPACES AND COMPUTING; TEST ABILITY; TEST SHEETS; TESTING TIME;

TESTING;

EID: 48549098461     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2007.10.006     Document Type: Article

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