Testing in Adaptive LMS

Abstract

Abstract For a number of years now, the research activity at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies at the Pedagogical Faculty of the University of Ostrava has been aimed at improving the quality of instruction. A team of experts has been assembled who can create new study materials that can be used in the electronic environment and are able to adapt to students’ individual characteristics and needs. As feedback is an integral part of instruction (be it the e-learning or the classic one), the proposition of electronic adaptive testing has been included in the process. In the proposition, the authors ponder a number of alternative possibilities of adapting test tasks - suitably formulated tasks, suitable reactions to the student’s correct and incorrect answers, suitable selection of individual test tasks. This paper aims to introduce the basic principles and rules of electronic adaptive testing and consider other adaptation options.