Patrick - how can this help us?
David Davies wrote:
> Hi Carole
>
> I'll tell you what we do. For now, forget XML completely. It's not relevant
> to this discussion.
>
> We've got a web-based MCQ system that pulls MCQs out of a database for
> delivery via the web and pokes the students responses back in. It's no
> different that any other MCQ system that uses server-side processing,
> including all the commercial systems.
>
> Because the results are gathered in a results database, the system
> automatically calculates both the facility and the discrimination. The
> students receives his/her marks and the question owner(s) receive the stats
> describing the usefulness of their questions. We've spent a bit of time
> developing a tidy web interface to this so that the tutor of lead teacher
> can log in and monitor the performance of their questions at their
> convenience.
>
> Individual questions are coded according to level of difficulty such that
> there are golden questions that define core learning, standard questions
> that have been used before and so we have an idea as to their facility and
> discrimination, and new questions that have been deemed suitable for
> inclusion, but have not been tested 'in the field'.
>
> This utility is for us one of the chief benefits of using computer-based
> assessment.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
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