Towards a General Adaptive e-Assessment System

Abstract

Assessment is an important part of the learning process. The instructor should be able to evaluate whether a learner has acquired the knowledge and competences provided in the course. Moreover, assessment activities also help a learner to check his level of expertise. Typically, the assessment model and assessment activities of subjects in official programmes are the same for all the learners, since they should be evaluated having the same opportunities and conditions. However, when the learner is evaluated by means of a continuous assessment model, he is proving on each activity his knowledge and proficiency level and, at the same time, his reputation could be also built based on the actions he is performing within the course. Therefore, the assessment model can be adapted based on this information. In this paper, we present a general system to adapt the assessment based on different evidences gathered from the learning process of the learner.