Resources and Links
Resource Links
Bibliography on Computer Aided Assessment and Distance Learning
Centre for Interactive Assessment Development at the University of Derby
University of Dundee information about summative assessment
Information about Computer Aided Assessment at the University of Edinburgh
Electronic feedback system at Liverpool John Moores University
Links to Sheffield Hallam University web site with case studies
Links to IMS
Scottish Centre for Research into Online Learning and Assessment (SCROLLA)
TechDis/LTSN Forum for Computer-based Assessment and Accessibility
Information at Robert Gordon University
Information at The University of Edinburgh
Project on Assessment in Scotland - using Information Technology - (PASS-IT) based at Heriot-Watt University
Technologies for Online Interoperable Assessment (TOIA) an advanced online assessment management system available free of charge to all UK further and higher education institutions and based at the University of Strathclyde
FERL Focus area on e-assessment
Some Question Banks [all accessed 22nd March 2004]
Medicine and Business Studies; Chemistry, Pharmaceutical and Biological Sciences; Mathematics
Social Policy. Contact bob.rotheram@ntu.ac.uk (National Teaching Fellow)
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