Managing Large Class Assessment

Rhodes, A., Bower, K. and Bancroft, P.

ExamGen is a software application developed at Queensland University of Technology to assist instructors with assessment in large classes (250+). The ExamGen program was developed for the Faculty of Information Technology in response to an investigation into appropriate assessment alternatives designed to cope with the ever increasing enrolment numbers in tertiary institutions, in particular in Information Technology. This paper describes how ExamGen is being used to develop test banks of multiple choice and short answer questions from which examination papers can be generated to augment (or even largely replace) the current widespread use of traditional written theory exams. The advantages realised by this software tool include easy development and maintenance of unit test banks, automatic generation of examinations, faster marking and the ability to test a broader range of unit material. ExamGen has special features not found in similar software which assist instructors in maintaining questions which are not just straight recall.

Cite as: Rhodes, A., Bower, K. and Bancroft, P. (2004). Managing Large Class Assessment. In Proc. Sixth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2004), Dunedin, New Zealand. CRPIT, 30. Lister, R. and Young, A. L., Eds. ACS. 285-289.

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