Investigating students' perceptions of fairness for computer based exams

fairness;variants;exam

Emeka, Chinedu Alexander ; Zhai ; ChengXiang ; Zilles ; Craig

关键词: fairness;    variants;    exam;   

Others  :  https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/106292/EMEKA-THESIS-2019.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

美国|英语

来源: The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship

【 摘 要 】

Computer-based tests have numerous advantages over paper-based ones, including allowing instructors to scale up their classes by removing the bottleneck of manual grading, as well as facilitating data collection and analysis. At the University of Illinois, instructors have adopted and extended computer-based testing to support asynchronous exams. Students may take their exams asynchronously at convenient times, and they are assigned questions randomly from a pool of question variants. Previous work has been done to compare variants and test equality, but little research has been conducted to determine students’ perceptions of fairness of these exams. In this work, we investigate students’ fairness perceptions for major aspects of the computerized exams. We perform a qualitative study and lay the groundwork for future quantitative analysis.