Getting Started

If you are new to CAA, below are some suggestions for getting started.

Use this site:

• See the Guide to Writing Objective Tests for more information about the types of questions that can be used with CAA. The Guide is also available as a pdf file
• Use the subject-specific links to see how CAA is being used in your discipline.

Read the following articles:

On-line:

• Now is the time to computerize pen and paper tests! John Kleeman (1998) - This paper gives an overview of the current state of CAA in the UK and outlines the advantages of computerized testing.
• Active Learning - Issue One: Computer Assisted Assessment (1994) - One of the first complete texts dedicated to CAA. This site contains a number of important, early articles.

Printed:

• "Using Computers in Assessment" (1997) in Assessing Student Learning in Higher Education by George Brown with Joanna Bull and Malcolm Pendlebury London: Routledge 202-221.
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• "Computer-assisted Assessment: suggested guidelines for an institutional strategy" (1998) by Derek Stephens, Joanna Bull and Winnie Wade in Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 23.3 283-294.
• "Pragmatic issues when integrating technology into the assessment of students" (1999) by Jen Harvey and Nora Mogey in Computer-Assisted Assessment in Higher Education edited by Sally Brown, Joanna Bull and Phil Race, London: Kogan Page.

For more references, see our searchable database.

Construct a test

To create a simple web-based test and to find out more about using CAA on the web, visit the CASTLE site.