Computer Aided Assessment and its Situation in Higher Education: A Case Study from the Islamic Azad University in Iran

Abstract

As growing of internet and e-learning in our country (Iran) and needing e-assessment as vital element of e-learning, it is possible to take test through preparing electronic assessment. In these systems, each lecturer prepares questions and save them in database system. Then students can connect to system and by entering the password and username attend in the exam. And finally they aware from their test result. The purpose of performing this kind of exams is using the computer to take a test in paperless form. In this paper, at first e-learning, e-assessment and its advantages and disadvantages are introduced. Then we illustrate how we implement e-assessment in Islamic Azad University in Iran which is based of synchronous and asynchronous models, and finally the problems of these kinds of assessment will be discussed.