Chinese Journal of Science Education


Vol. 10 No. 4 , Pages 423 - 439 , 2002

Analysis and Improvement of Test Items for a Network-based Intelligent Testing System (Article written in chinese)

Gwo-Jen HWANG, Judy C. R. TSENG, Carol CHU, & Jing-Wu SHIAU

Abstract

During the learning process, it is important to evaluate the learning status of the students, especially in a network-based learning environment that provides personalized subject materials. To have an integrated and shared test bank, it is necessary to have several educational experts cooperate through computer networks. In some previous work, researchers have proposed techniques to cope with redundancy, consistency and integrity problems when educators provide test items through computer networks. However, the correctness and accuracy of the redundancy and consistency checking are not desirable, which will significantly affect the quality of the item bank. In this paper, we propose a semantic analysis-based method to cope with these problems. Some experiments on “ Biology” course of senior high schools have shown that our approach can achieve more accurate results.

Keywords: network-based testing; item bank; redundancy analysis; consistency analysis; distance learning

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