Title
Crafting Online Exams In Engineering And Technology: Latest Challenges, Methodologies, And Trends
Abstract
In recent years distance education and learning have emerged as a popular method of instructional delivery in engineering and technology-related fields. Many faculties of engineering and technology may found themselves teaching online classes or thinking about teaching one. In this process, crafting and preparation of online exams without sacrificing the educational quality and exam security is a crucial issue to the faculty. Psychological setbacks and barriers among engineering students also add another concern for the faculty teaching in a distance education environment, i.e., students may have fears of losing partial credit in an online multiple-choice exam. The asynchronous and economical advantages of distance education and learning that make offering and taking them very popular force the profession to re-examine and re-engineer some of these exam-related issues. In this paper we discuss issues as they relate to crafting online exams for the distance learning students in engineering and technology. More specifically, we discuss one major theme: how should faculty craft and design online exams for students studying in engineering and technology-related fields? We use some accurate but crude empirical data and evaluation methodologies to draw our conclusions. The data used are collected from more recent sample courses that have been taught by the authors over the last five years. This facilitates the evaluation of the latest challenges, development of new methodologies, and monitoring the current trends. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2008.
Publication Date
1-1-2008
Publication Title
ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
Number of Pages
-
Document Type
Article; Proceedings Paper
Personal Identifier
scopus
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
85029088482 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85029088482
STARS Citation
Mehrabian, Ali; Ali, Tarig; and Rahrooh, Alireza, "Crafting Online Exams In Engineering And Technology: Latest Challenges, Methodologies, And Trends" (2008). Scopus Export 2000s. 10864.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2000/10864