A conceptual approach for development of educational Web-based e-testing system

The paper describes a conceptual approach for development of educational Web-based e-testing system. The system aims to improve the effectiveness of the learning process by providing features for flexible adjusting of the testing process. The tutors and learners can interact with the e-testing system by choosing different options for testing – easy questions, advanced questions, sequential or shuffle order, random generated questions within given range. The e-testing system can be used by students for self-testing or by tutors for official examination. When used for official examination the test results information is sent to the examiner by e-mail. The system files are stored on the server-side and are accessible through Web-browser. A prototype of e-testing system illustrating the proposed approach is developed by means of HTML and JavaScript languages. It was used for “C Programming Language” course students self-testing and official examination. The experimental results demonstrated that the implementation of the proposed approach is quite helpful to facilitate the understanding and implementation of teachers’ attitudes toward Web-based e-testing tools application.

► E-testing system architecture with two layers – for testing options and for test control and scoring.
► Two functional algorithms are developed – for user interaction and for control and evaluation.
► Web-based prototype example for GUI design and algorithms implementation by DHTML and JavaScript.
► Improved testing effectiveness by different testing levels, numbers of questions, random choices.