18.622 using computers in examinations for open-ended questions?

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 18, No. 662.
       Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                   www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
                        www.princeton.edu/humanist/
                     Submit to: humanist_at_princeton.edu

         Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:49:15 +0000
         From: cristina p <cristinaperissinotto_at_yahoo.com>
         Subject: CALL, and teaching content in a computer-enhanced classroom

Dear listmembers

I was wondering if anyone can give me any advice about
testing for content, i.e. literature, philosophy, in a
computer-enhanced classroom.

I teach Italian language and literature -- often in
very large classrooms -- and the problem with using
computers for testing is that commercial programs can
only correct handle close-ended questions, at least as
far as I know.

Has any of you experimented with open-ended questions
and computers? How do you all deal with correcting
them?

Thank you for any advice.

Prof. Cristina Perissinotto
University of Ottawa

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com
Received on Fri Mar 25 2005 - 04:02:27 EST