عنوان المقالة:Construction of an Online Examination System with Resumption and Randomization Capabilities Construction of an Online Examination System with Resumption and Randomization Capabilities
Online Examination is an essential ingredient in electronic and interactive learning, however, in educational environment most of examinations are done in the classical paper-based way due to the lack of resumption capability when power/network/physical computer's component failures. For this reason, adopting and developing an online examination system acts as an active research area in recent years. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art and the-art-of-the-practice for nine general-purpose online examination systems found in the literature, as well as, some dedicated industrial systems based on seven elected intertwined features; namely: secure login, resumption capability, multi-instructor, random question selection, random questions distribution, random choice distribution, and portability implementation method. Even though, the implementation of these systems is promising, however, these systems have some bleeding points. For instance, by practicing the existing examinations system, some challenging features are found and others are missing. Among these features; namely: the resumption capability and the combination of randomization features are missing in the reviewed systems. Fix and build from earlier works, this paper proposes an Online Examination System (OLES) that addresses all the elected features to facilitate adopting online examination. OLES is based on spiral model and TCP-IP client/server networking and implemented using Java programming language and Derby database. Finally, a comparison of the proposed OLES versus other related works to distinguish its unique features, and some recommendations for future work are provided.
Abstract
Online Examination is an essential ingredient in electronic and interactive learning, however, in educational environment most of examinations are done in the classical paper-based way due to the lack of resumption capability when power/network/physical computer's component failures. For this reason, adopting and developing an online examination system acts as an active research area in recent years. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art and the-art-of-the-practice for nine general-purpose online examination systems found in the literature, as well as, some dedicated industrial systems based on seven elected intertwined features; namely: secure login, resumption capability, multi-instructor, random question selection, random questions distribution, random choice distribution, and portability implementation method. Even though, the implementation of these systems is promising, however, these systems have some bleeding points. For instance, by practicing the existing examinations system, some challenging features are found and others are missing. Among these features; namely: the resumption capability and the combination of randomization features are missing in the reviewed systems. Fix and build from earlier works, this paper proposes an Online Examination System (OLES) that addresses all the elected features to facilitate adopting online examination. OLES is based on spiral model and TCP-IP client/server networking and implemented using Java programming language and Derby database. Finally, a comparison of the proposed OLES versus other related works to distinguish its unique features, and some recommendations for future work are provided.
Publication Date
4/1/2015
Publisher
International Journal of Computing Academic Research (IJCAR)
E - learning; distributed learning environments; architectures for educational technology system; online examination system ; software engineering; Resumption; c ross - platform; c lient/ s erver; TCP - IP s ocket .
ا.د. محمد عصام يونس | Mohammed I. Younis | 13889