Key themes
Key themes include the following areas and are not limited to Higher Education. Submissions outside these areas that may be of real interest to the Conference’s audience are welcomed.
| 1 Evaluation
1.1 What are the real costs and benefits 1.2 Student views about CAA 1.3 Comparisons between CAA Systems (Ease of use, cost, etc) 1.4 Comparison of using CAA with existing methods 1.5 Inter-institutional collaboration 2 Reporting 2.1 Interfacing with E-Portfolios 2.2 Strategies for effective use of reports/results 2.3 Innovation in Results Handling 3 Innovation in CAA 3.1 Extending free-text assessment 3.2 Question Types (over and above objective questions) 3.3 Use of IT to underpin the assessment process 3.4 Question banks and question sharing 3.5 Intelligent/expert CAA Systems 3.6 International Developments 3.7 Delivery systems not limited to Web/PC (PDA, mobile phone etc) 3.8 Collaborative assessment, E-moderation, Peer assisted learning, hidden assessment 3.9 Addressing the requirements of students with special needs 3.10 VLE/MLE assessment issues 3.11 E-assessment Architectures & Frameworks 3.12 Open Source E-assessment Initiatives 3.13 Service Oriented Approaches |
4 Assessing skills and enhancing student learning
4.1 Study skills, key skills, IT Skills 4.2 Higher order skills 4.3 Diagnostic testing 4.4 Pedagogical issues in question design and content 4.5 Provision of effective student feedback 4.6 High stakes summative assessment/Large scale CAA 4.7 Plagiarism 4.8 Adaptive testing 4.9 E-portfolio Assessment Issues 4.10 Embedding Assessment in Learning 4.11 Scenario Based Assessment 4.12 Confidence Level Assessment 5 Strategic Developments 5.1 Encouraging uptake 5.2 Identification and maintenance of best practice 5.3 Departmental/faculty/institution wide initiatives 5.4 Quality assurance issues 5.5 Staffing issues 5.6 Impact on institutional teaching and learning strategies 5.7 Standards 5.8 Security issues and biometrics 5.9 Examination board and corporate experiences 5.10 Support issues, staff and student training 5.11 Linkages with Appropriate Information Systems 5.12 Production Systems & Issues |