Abstract
Information and Internet technologies are familiar presences in the field of education nowadays, and e-learning became a prominent learning environment for more then two decades. The situation is even more evident in the higher education area, where the number of e-learning programs is rapidly increasing.
E-learning addresses all parts of education: the teaching process and the course content, the learning process, which has no more space or time limitations, the ways of communication between the teacher and the students and between the students themselves, and, of course, the learning achievement assessment process. Student valuation is one of the most significant features in an education system. All the old-style assessments ways have been reshaped by the use of the computer environment, and some of the problems associated with the traditional assessment methods, such as difficult to control conditions (i.e., tiredness, preference) appear to be better treated in the new circumstances. The use of technology leads to better test administration, more efficient ways to link each learner to a appropriate learning tasks, on the basis of test results and can offer the teacher regular reports on the development of his learners.
In the field of e-assessment, the teacher can choose between many dedicated software, many of them freeware. The objective of this paper is to evaluate ten of the most significant programs of this kind (ProProfs Quiz Maker, Wondershare QuizCreator, Classmaker, Multiple Choice Quiz Maker, MyQuizCreator, Atrixware Flash Quiz Maker 9.0, eQuizzer, Qedoc Quiz Maker, Match-up quiz Generator and EasyTestMaker), by means of assessment tools, topics covered, ease of use, help and support.
After revealing the most important features of the studied software, we have tested them on a group of junior students of computer science discipline, and the results are commented. Not only the software performance, but the quality of the questions in the e-assessment has been evaluated by the subjects. |
