school testing
Submitted by carboman on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 04:58.
I used to work for a community college that used a national testing company to do their testing for college entrance examinations. Does anyone else have experience in this area. The one question I have is: are they just text based or graphical and text based? I was contemplating getting together with some of the instructors where I used to work to create open source testing programs to save school districts money.. Of course the data in the used by the programs would not be open source for security reasons.
My opinion is, they should
My opinion is, they should be using a python base for testing, or completely online, using a browser, with https. This eliminates single platform dependencies. I do not know of anything at this time that does this.
on-line testing
The companies we (I should say they now) used had their own special browser, but one had connection problems to no end. part of that might have been the network administrator who I can not say what I think about him to be nice. and the other one ran off a local server that only allowed 10 connections at a time. I am not a real programmer but, I can make darn good prototypes. Besides I saw a ton of errors on how exams were graded. Who was I to Judge, I do not have alphabet soup behind my name. Thanx for the feedback.
The biggest barrier to entry
The biggest barrier to entry is the State wide adoption of the programs, and getting backing by the right people. I would say that a secure web application that serves verious standards testing questions would not be a daunting task, it is just that no one is going about it the right way, and there is no support of it.