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Derginin Adı:
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The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
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Cilt:
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2010/11
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Sayı:
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2
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Makale Başlık:
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USING COMPUTER-BASED TESTING AS ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT METHOD OF STUDENT LEARNING IN DISTANCE EDUCATION
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Makale Alternatif Dilde Başlık:
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Makale Eklenme Tarihi:
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12.04.2015
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Okunma Sayısı:
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1
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Makale Özeti:
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This paper addresses the use of computer-based testing in distance education, based on
the experience of Universitas Terbuka (UT), Indonesia. Computer-based testing has
been developed at UT for reasons of meeting the specific needs of distance students as
the following:
students‘ inability to sit for the scheduled test,
conflicting test schedules, and
students‘ flexibility to take examination to improve their grades.
In 2004, UT initiated a pilot project in the development of system and program for
computer-based testing method. Then in 2005 and 2006 tryouts in the use of computerbased
testing methods were conducted in 7 Regional Offices that were considered as
having sufficient supporting recourses. The results of the tryouts revealed that students
were enthusiastic in taking computer-based tests and they expected that the test
method would be provided by UT as alternative to the traditional paper and pencil test
method. UT then implemented computer-based testing method in 6 and 12 Regional
Offices in 2007 and 2008 respectively.
The computer-based testing was administered in the city of the designated Regional
Office and was supervised by the Regional Office staff. The development of the
computer-based testing was initiated with conducting tests using computers in
networked configuration. The system has been continually improved, and it currently
uses devices linked to the internet or the World Wide Web. The construction of the test
involves the generation and selection of the test items from the item bank collection of
the UT Examination Center. Thus the combination of the selected items compromises the
test specification.
Currently UT has offered 250 courses involving the use of computer-based testing.
Students expect that more courses are offered with computer-based testing in Regional
Offices within easy access by students.
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