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Makale Özeti:
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Teaching–learning process is incomplete without effective and meaningful assessment
of students learning outcomes. This applies to both conventional modes of education as
well as to open and distance learning modes. So far, conduct of examinations at the
National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), has been cumbersome and be-decked
with ‗hydra headed‘ problems, such as: dearth of skilled academics, finances, prompt
marking of scripts and collation/processing of acceptable results leading to release of
incomplete or meaningless results. Hence the need for re-engineering the examination
process at the NOUN.
This paper discusses the On Demand Examination System (ODES), an Information
Communication and Technology (ICT) based innovation which enables the assessment
of students, as at and on their own readiness and demand. But, opined that NOUN can
make better use of ODES by convenient adaptation and use of the ODES software
functionalities and processes.
The ODES can be used to handle the challenging examination processes such as
generating items that could be administered to students as a group at the End of
Semester Examination.
The results of the examination can then be timely processedd and released following
the laid down procedures already entrenched by the use of the software to overcome
most of the burden experienced so far. Since, the institution, the students and even the
staff are not technologically ready for On Demand Examination for now.
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