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Solar ProjectA model for sustainable
development of e-assessment
Scottish Learning FestivalWednesday 19 September 2007
Solar ProjectSolar ProjectA model for sustainable A model for sustainable
development of edevelopment of e--assessmentassessment
Scottish Learning FestivalScottish Learning FestivalWednesday 19 September 2007Wednesday 19 September 2007
Background
– Originally funded by SFC and SQA– Additional support from ESF and Scottish
Executive– Building on existing FE sector initiatives– Using subject specialists from across Scotland
Solar Project
• Solar Project – www.solarproject.org
• Online system for authoring, peer review and Verification
• Objective-type questions incl. MCQ, MRQ, Numerical, gapfill, re-ordering, text-highlight, drop-down, drag-n-drop, free-text
• All Colleges currently have unlimited access
Solar Project
Already developed
– 450+ versions of Computing assessments
– 150+ Health & Social Care
– Up to 300 Language assessments
– Some Engineering assesments
• e-Assessments for Internet Safety qualification
Solar Projectavailable January 08
– Sports
– Information Technology and Interactive Media
– 10 units in Dental Technology
– 6 main topics in Early Years Care
– Horticulture
– Music Business
– Water management and Fashion and Textiles question banks
– NQ – TAPS assessments
New Development
• An assessment ‘Version’ model replaced with an Itembank model of development
• Supported by new delivery, packaging, reporting and feedback features
New Development Model
Verifier
Type of Assessment
Number of questions in an assessment
Rules on how assessment to be created including balance
Authors/PR
Contracted for fixed number of questions covering specified outcomes/KSVs
All questions peer reviewed and approved by peer reviewer
Verifier
Attempts assessment in the delivery system a specified number of times
Modifies rules as reqd.
Edits made by authors as required
SQA
Authoring
• Using CP3 – online item authoring software
• Flash-based• Flexible question construction
Creating
Rules-based assessment construction
Delivering
Online administration, delivery and marking
A Sustainable developmentModel
Provide sustainable access for lecturers and learners to a bank of
items to enable the creation, delivery and reporting of
customised formative and summative e-assessments
Item BankItem Bank
SummativeSummative
Lecturer
Learner
LearnerLearner
Lecturer
LearnerSQASQA
A Sustainable developmentModel• Making full use of sector resources
• Contributing to a national process of quality improvement
• Central development with the benefit of the input of local skills
• Realising local benefits
QUESTIONS
