Online Testing
Assessment is the process of measuring knowledge,
skills, abilities and attitudes and documenting the same.
In general assessment can be objective or subjective.
Objective assessment is a form of questioning which
has a single correct answer. Subjective assessment is a form of
questioning which may have more than one current answer (or
more than one way of expressing the correct answer). There are various
types of objective and subjective questions. Objective question
types include true/false multiple choice and multiple-response
etc. Subjective questions include extended-response questions and
essays.
Objective assessment is becoming more popular as
they are easier to administer, a large area of subjects/topics
can be covered and can be assessed in small time. In addition the
chances of errors on account of handwriting etc are also eliminated.
In objective assessment multiple choice questions
are most popular although true/false, multiple response, fill-in-blanks
and matching are also used in some exams.
In past few years responses of objective assessment
are recorded on machine readable forms and as such results
are drawn more quickly and accurately.
Recently dramatic increase in usage of Computers
and internet has supported increased use of online assessment
using objective questions
Online testing broadly is a assessment by using
information technology. This generally is also called as e- assessment.
The assessment can be based on a criteria or can
be general i.e without any specific criteria such as IQ tests.
Most of exams which have specific syllabus assess
students based on a certain criteria where questions are drawn
from specific areas (say physics, chemistry, mathematics etc), the
questions are of certain type (say multiple choice, multiple
response etc) the questions are of a certain level of difficulty,
the questions are to be answered in some given time
and there is a criteria to allocate marks/grade for correct/incorrect
responses and questions not attempted. Testbag is currently catering
to such type of assessments using multiple choice questions
(which is most popular form of objective assessment).
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