Improving Educational Assessment in Mobile Environment

Abstract

Due to the advancement of mobile technologies and portable devices, new research issue in education is evolved from desktop computers to handheld devices, that is, the development of educational assessment with personalized learning system support. In this paper, an integration of student modeling system with dynamic assessment strategy and context recommendations is proposed. This combination addressed some challenging issues from the perspective of cognitive learning to reflect the fundamental needs for effective mobile student learning process through the dynamic assessment. In the presented system, the assessment tests are designed according to the instructor's specification for the selection of questions, the scoring procedure and the evaluation technique. Furthermore, the knowledge estimation model with the guessing parameter is presented. The initial system User interface is implemented with Android Platform for 3rd Generation Mobile emulator which provides a rich set of User Interfaces (UI), gestures and 2-D and 3-D graphic.