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Loughborough University's QuestionMark Perception
service is one of the largest in the country. It offers a reliable
and robust web based assessment service and is available to all
staff and students. The system is well suited to large cohorts
of students and where the assessment content is relatively 'long
lived'.
Web based assessment through Perception offers numerous advantages
to both the student, the lecturer and the administrator. These
include an enormous potential for saving staff time, enabling
rapid delivery of assessment results to students and the support
of formative assessment to facilitate reflective learning. Other
benefits include:
- Assessments that can be taken any time, from any Internet
enabled place.
- Instantaneous feedback and automated marking.
- The potential to introduce a richer range of material
(audio, visual)
- Formative learning activities that can be repeatedly used
by students for revision without an additional workload
on teaching staff.
- The ability to track the performance of an individual
student or a group of students
- Quality can be monitored by looking at the performance
of questions
- Formative assessments can be repeated as frequently as
desired to aid student learning
- The randomisation of questions to reduce the opportunity
for cheating
- The use of adaptive testing to match the test to the students'
ability
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