کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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359463 | 620169 | 2013 | 15 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |

• Ontology e-assessment has potential to assess students’ understanding of concepts.
• The system (OeLe) can automatically mark short free-text answers to open questions.
• OeLe can reliably identify clear passes, fails and those on the boundary.
• OeLe has potential to offer formative feedback based on concepts not specific answers.
• OeLe relies on clear articulations of the conceptual basis of courses/assessments.
This article reports on a pilot of a novel ontology-based e-assessment system in accounting that draws on the potential of emerging semantic technologies to produce an online assessment environment capable of marking students’ free-text answers to questions of a conceptual nature. It does this by matching their response with a “concept map” or “ontology” of domain knowledge expressed by subject specialists. The system used, OeLe, allows not only for marking, but also for feedback to individual students and teachers about student strengths and weaknesses, as well as to whole cohorts, thus providing both a formative and a summative assessment function. This article reports on the results of a “proof of concept” trial of OeLe, in which the system was implemented and evaluated outside its original development environment (an online course in education being used instead in an undergraduate course in financial accounting. It describes the potential affordances and demands of implementing ontology-based assessment in accounting, together with suggestions of what needs to be done if such approaches are to be more widely implemented.
Journal: Journal of Accounting Education - Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2013, Pages 162–176