Computer-Aided Assessment

Abstract

A common perception exists that computer-assisted assessment (CAA) is synonymous with summative multiple choice testing. This perception may be partly responsible for a lack of enthusiasm encountered among some academic staff to incorporate CAA into teaching programmes. This has been the experience in attempts to promote the use of communications and information technology in the curriculum in the Earth and Environment Faculty at the University of Leeds. Nevertheless a wide range of CAA applications is in use in the faculty. In this paper, examples of the imaginative employment of CAA in geosciences are used to illustrate that CAA can, in fact, be a major player in a holistic, high order learning environment