- Effective assessment in a digital age
06 Sep 2010Effective Assessment in a Digital Age draws on recent JISC reports and case studies depicting different contexts and modes of learning to explore the relationship between technology-enabled...
- Assessment resources
30 Jun 2009This paper highlights a selection of JISC and Higher Education Academy resources and activities relevant to using technology to support assessment. While this is not a comprehensive guide it provides...
- Integrating thin client systems for secure e-assessment
01 Jun 2009This project has demonstrated that thin client technology, allied to systematic institutional procedures and processes, can deliver effective and efficient summative e-assessment to learners in a...
- Review of Advanced e-Assessment Techniques
21 May 2009The aim of this project is to provide JISC and its community with a review of state-of-the-art techniques in e-assessment which should be considered for application in UK Higher Education and Further...
- Math e-Assessment
20 May 2009This project utilised a version of the QTI toolkit (ASDEL, AQuRate, Minibix, R2Q2), extended to include the MathQTI specification in item authoring and rendering to handle mathematical elements. To...
- Summative e-Assessment Quality
01 May 2009This project surveyed quality assurance activities commonly undertaken in summative e-assessment by UK Higher Education practitioners and others. The project focused on what denotes high quality in...
- Scoping a Vision for Formative e-Assessment
30 Apr 2009This report is for software developers looking to integrate formative e-assessment with existing e-learning technologies and other post-16 practitioners using formative e-assessment, in order to...
- Tri-party e-assessment and personalised learning
24 Apr 2009This project examined the use of online assessment with groups of students in a Further Education College where the employer is part of the learning contract.
- e-Assessment in Wales
31 Mar 2009This project investigated the issues involved in delivering e-assessment across franchise courses, in other words Higher Education level programmes, accredited by a host HEI (in this case, the...
- Blooming QCF-QMT (Credit Qualification Framework – Question Meta Tags)
01 Nov 2008Learning programmes and descriptors are defined at specific SQCF / QCF levels. Assessments are created to address whether learning, at these levels, has been achieved. However, generally assessments...
- e-Assessment: An Overview of JISC Activities
15 Sep 2008JISC recognised the importance of e-assessment for the UK education and research community as long ago as the late 1990s as part of the groundbreaking work on Managed Learning Environments and on...
- Open Source Item Banking System
03 Jun 2008This project developed an open source item banking system for the management of
assessment items using version 2 of the IMS QTI specification in both high-stakes and low-stakes environments.
- Tangible Benefits of e-Learning: Does investment yield interest?
11 Apr 2008The JISC e-Learning Programme set out to explore the diversity of current e-learning practice across the sector and to find out what evidence there is relating to return on investment. A project led...
- ASDEL: Assessment Delivery Engine for QTIv2 questions
31 Mar 2008The objective of the project was to build a test delivery engine to the IMS Question and Test Interoperability version 2.1 specifications that can be deployed as a stand-alone web application or as...
- e-Learning Framework Reference Model for Assessment
17 Nov 2007This document reports on the history and evolution of the project, and how the outputs fit into this story (the outputs are highlighted in bold). It then presents each of the outputs in detail in...
- Re-Engineering Assessment Practices in Scottish Higher Education
09 Oct 2007This project involved the implementation and evaluation of new models of assessment practice supported by technology in large cohort first-year classes across three Scottish Higher Education...
- e-Construction Transformation
09 Oct 2007This project seeks to resolve some of these challenges and to support Scotland’s economy through the growth and increased efficiency of the Scottish construction sector. This project is one of 6...
- Tools for Online Interoperable Assessment
01 Aug 2007Tools for Online Interoperable Assessment project (TOIA) brings together recognised UK FE and HE leaders in the area of online assessment and interoperability.
- Web 2.0 for content for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
28 May 20073-month JISC-funded study into the use of Web 2.0 technologies for content creation for learning and teaching in HE.
- Effective practice with e-assessment
13 Mar 2007The outcomes from three projects in the e-Learning Pedagogy programme have formed the basis for 'Effective Practice with e-Assessment', a case-study based overview of e-assessment in the further and...
- Rendering and Response Processing Services for QTIv2 Questions
26 Sep 2006The overall aim of the project is in-line with the requirement from the assessment community to ‘kick-start QTIv2’, the project aims to take the monolithic Web Service, QTIRun and refactor it such...
- Service-Oriented Consumer Kit for e-Learning Framework Tools
14 Sep 2006As the number of web service tools in the JISC e-Learning Framework increases steadily, there is a need for generic software resources that can deploy these tools seamlessly into Virtual Learning...
- JISC e-Learning programme: Improving the quality of e-Learning
11 Sep 2006The e‑Learning Programme aims to identify how e‑learning can benefit learners, practitioners and educational institutions, and advise on its implementation.
- e-Assessment: An overview of JISC activities
01 Sep 2006As more and more software suppliers and developers become involved in producing e-assessment products, so JISC is bringing the issues associated with this increasingly complex area to the attention...
- Constructing Assessments using Tools and Services
01 Sep 2006This project developed an exemplary system for harvesting assessment items from item bank systems on the basis of an assessment request profile that not only comprised the subject domain query and...
- JISC Exchange for Learning programme (X4L)
02 Mar 2006It is clear that colleagues in the classroom wish to take an active role in defining the kinds of content that would best fit their learning aims, and for national agencies and support services to...
- Storage and Packaging of Assessment Item Data
28 Oct 2005This project scoped and implemented services to facilitate the packaging of assessment items for storage in an item bank and the search and retrieval services necessary for the use of item banks.
- JISC e-Learning Framework Assessment Demonstrator
29 Sep 2005This project integrated a variety of forms of automated assessment questions and engines that are pre-existing outputs of internal development and other JISC projects.