Building an Efficient and Effective Test Management System in an ODL Institution
Building an Efficient and Effective Test Management System in an ODL Institution
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2016-11
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Yusof, Safiah M
Lim, TickMeng
Png, Leo
Khatab, Zainuriyah A
Singh, Harvinder K D
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Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM)
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Open University Malaysia (OUM) is progressively moving towards implementing assessment on demand and online assessment. This move is deemed necessary for OUM to continue to be the leading provider of flexible learning. OUM serves a very large number of students each semester and these students are vastly distributed throughout the
country. As the number of learners keeps growing, the task of managing and administrating examinations every semester has become increasingly laborious, time consuming and costly. In trying to deal with this situation and improve the assessment processes, OUM has embarked on the development and employment of a test management
system. This test management system is named OUM QBank. The initial objectives of QBank development were aimed at enabling the systematic classification and storage of test items, as well as the auto-generation of test papers based on the required criteria. However, it was later agreed that the QBank should be a more comprehensive test management system that not just manages all assessment items but also includes the features to facilitate quality
control and flexibility of use. These include the functionality to perform item analyses and also online examination. This paper identifies the key elements and the important theoretical basis in ensuring the design and development of an effective and efficient system. // Paper ID 549
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Open and Distance Learning (ODL),
Assessment
Country
Malaysia
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Asia