Wednesday, January 31, 2007

WEBOGRAPHY on CAA (2)





Social Policy and Social Work (SWAP)

http://www.swap.ac.uk/elearning/develop6.asp

(The Webography contains a collection of web sites related to the topic of Computer-Assisted Assessment)

SWAP, the subject centre for social policy and social work, is one of the Higher Education Academy's 24 discipline based subject centers which aim to enhance the student learning experience by promoting high quality learning, teaching and assessment and by supporting social work and social policy educators. There is an e-learning section of the web, in which the provided website gives us sufficient information on computer-assisted assessment.

If the The Handbook just introduces some basic knowledge on CAA, then SWAP gives us more pedagogic principles and support on the relation between CAA and teaching. In the last two parts of the website—the references and resources, as well as the case studies, a number of articles were listed with external links on CAA, which are more rhetorically profound.

Table 1 lists the range of question types that can be used in computer-assisted assessment, which offers a reader-friendly guideline for teachers to take into consideration the possible use of those question types into testing designs in the future. By getting access to the homepage of SWAP, more links were supported in the section of e-learning, which can better blueprint the background information of computer-assisted language teaching and learning.

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