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BriteStep: Automation in IT Assessment

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Technology Enhanced Learning. Quality of Teaching and Educational Reform (TECH-EDUCATION 2010)

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This focuses on an assessment system which permits the automated creation of tests and the evaluation of output from IT trainees. The existing prototype differs radically from other approaches in that it does not require any specific software platform to operate. Instead, it integrates seamlessly with standard existing business software such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint or Excel. To achieve its objectives the system monitors and records user activity and through an intelligent inference engine it either creates test templates or it automatically assesses submitted tests. The present prototype operates on Windows XP and Vista and minimizes the effort of tutors to set and evaluate tests.

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  1. Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department, University of Strathclyde, 204 George Street, Glasgow, G1 1XW, UK

    Lykourgos Petropoulakis & Taha Khan

  2. eCom Scotland Ltd, 18b Dickson Street, Dunfermline, KY12 7SL, UK

    Linda Steedman

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  1. The American College of Greece, Gerakas Attikis, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. University of Oviedo, Spain

    Patricia Ordonez De Pablos

  3. ESSEC Business School, Cergy Pontoise Cedex, France

    David Avison

  4. Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA

    Janice Sipior

  5. Dept. Human Informatics and Cognitive Sciences, Waseda University, 2-579-15 Mikajima, Tokorozawa, 359-1192, Saitama, Japan

    Qun Jin

  6. Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal

  7. Staffordshire University, Becaonside, Stafford, UK

    Lorna Uden

  8. Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan

    Michael Thomas

  9. Trieste University, Italy

    Sara Cervai

  10. The American College of Greece, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece

    David Horner

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Petropoulakis, L., Khan, T., Steedman, L. (2010). BriteStep: Automation in IT Assessment. In: Lytras, M.D., et al. Technology Enhanced Learning. Quality of Teaching and Educational Reform. TECH-EDUCATION 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 73. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13166-0_79

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