A New Method for the Creation of MOOC-ready Database of Test Questions

Azam Beg

2014

Abstract

Recently, there has been a wide interest in the massive open online courses (MOOCs) that are freely available to the students from all over the world. Due to the large scale of MOOCs, the instructors (even with their teams of graders) cannot assess all the examinations and quizzes themselves. Peer grading eases the assessment burden but has its shortcomings. Ideally, the assessments should be fully automated and should also allow partial grading. Additionally, a sizeable database of questions is needed so that an individual student or a group of students are not able to see all the questions by repeatedly attempting the quizzes. In this paper, we present a Matlab-based method for automatically generating a large number of questions and their (intermediate and final) answers for a MOOC or a traditional classroom-based course on digital circuit design. The method that enables formative assessment is also applicable to other courses in engineering and sciences.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Beg A. (2014). A New Method for the Creation of MOOC-ready Database of Test Questions . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-020-8, pages 492-496. DOI: 10.5220/0004950604920496

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu14,
author={Azam Beg},
title={A New Method for the Creation of MOOC-ready Database of Test Questions },
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2014},
pages={492-496},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004950604920496},
isbn={978-989-758-020-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - A New Method for the Creation of MOOC-ready Database of Test Questions
SN - 978-989-758-020-8
AU - Beg A.
PY - 2014
SP - 492
EP - 496
DO - 10.5220/0004950604920496