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JISC/JTAP Project 2/10
Project Directors: Project Development Officer:
Dr Alan Cann Dr Helen Pownall
Dr Richard Mobbs
Learning Technology Group
University of Leicester
This is to announce the CAsTLe (Computer Assisted Teaching and Learning)
project on-line test authoring tool.
The CAsTLe project is funded by the JISC/JTAP programme
and started on the 1st October last year.
It's aims are to provide a 'High Level Authoring Shell for On-Line
Interactive Tutorials and Assessment', by developing a comprehensive
courseware authoring tool, which will enable tutors to produce and
maintain on-line Web pages. This will enhance the learning resources
available to the student for a fairly minimal time investment on behalf
of the tutor or course developer.
On-line resources will also help to address the issue of the
changing demography of the student population (distance learners, mature
and part-time students) and can also increase the contact time between
tutor and student. Effective question design means that assessment
questionnaires can test different cognitive processes (e.g.,
comprehension, application and evaluation) as well as the ability to
recall facts.
The project home page can be found at:
http://www.le.ac.uk/cc/ltg/castle/
where you will find more information about the CASTLE project, examples
of on-line tests which have been created using the CASTLE MCQ authoring
tool, and the CASTLE toolkit itself, which is freely available for use.
These pages are best viewed with Netscape v3.0 or higher.
The present toolkit consists of:
The mark engine.
The 'create' tool. Users enter tests via a web form.
The 'modify' tool. Users can modify previously created tests to add feedback,
HTML tags (i.e. to add inline images, and links, etc.), add and delete
options from a question, add and delete entire questions from a test page,
and change the title text, and background and text colours.
One major advantage of this toolkit is that it requires no prior knowledge of
HTML or any other form of mark-up tags, as the text is entered via a Web
form, and the test pages are returned immediately to the browser. Also
with the use of images and pdf files, users can include scientific
symbols and diagrams which are not included in the current HTML
specification.
Please visit our home page and have a look at the facilities that are
available, and feel free to contact me if you require any more information
about this project, or wish to make an appraisal of the project to
assist in its development.
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Dr. Helen Pownall ][
JISC Project ][
Learning Technology Group ][ Tel 0116 2525085 or 0116 2525195
9th Floor Charles Wilson ][ Fax 0116 2522198
University of Leicester ][
Leicester, LE1 7RH ][
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