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Comparison of institutional innovation: Two universities' nurturing of computer-based examinations

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posted on 2023-05-23, 07:46 authored by Fluck, AE, Mogey, N
University students are rarely permitted to use their own personal computers in ex-aminations. Yet this bring-your-own-device strategy appears essential for an eco-nomically sustainable transition to high stakes assessment using these ubiquitous professional tools. The focus is away from internet-based online testing, and on lo-cal use of personal computers isolated from networking infrastructure (to prevent collusion), under the watchful eye of invigilators. Our respective institutions are lead-ing this transition in the United Kingdom and Australia, so we report on the gradual nature of the transition and the technologies involved. Further, we provide a compar-ison of university student perceptions about essay-style writing by hand or keyboard, and willingness to adopt computer-based examinations. Generally institutions and students prefer a graduated transition through paper-replacement examinations with free choice of writing implement, before moving to compulsory computer use and questions incorporating multimedia and software use. The paper concludes with recommendations for consideration by other universities considering adopting com-puters in high stakes assessments.

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Publication title

Learning while we are connected: Proceedings of the 10th IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education

Editors

N Reynolds, M Webb, M Syslo & V Dagiene

Pagination

11-20

ISBN

978-83-231-3095-6

Department/School

Faculty of Education

Publisher

Nicolaus Copernicus University Press

Place of publication

online

Event title

10th IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education

Event Venue

Poland

Date of Event (Start Date)

2013-07-01

Date of Event (End Date)

2013-07-07

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Leased under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0)

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Teaching and curriculum not elsewhere classified

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