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Development of communication and information technology had an important impact on teaching, learning and knowledge assessment. According with national trends in objective evaluation of undergraduate students’ knowledge, starting with experiences obtained by creation of the multiple choices examination system for general chemistry, an auto-calibrated online evaluation system has been developed. The aim of the research was to assess the first year undergraduate students’ knowledge on materials chemistry topic at the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania by using the developed auto-calibrated online evaluation system. The testing and evaluation methodologies are presented. The students’ performances in terms of individual correct answers score and the average time per correct answer were collected and analyzed. The proposed auto-calibrated online evaluation system proved to offer a stable and valid evaluation environment for undergraduate students’ knowledge assessment on materials chemistry topic.
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JÄNTSCHI, L., STOENOIU, C.E., BOLBOACMĂ, S.E. (2007). Undergraduate Students Assessment on Materials Chemistry Topic using an Auto-Calibrated Online System. In: Iskander, M. (eds) Innovations in E-learning, Instruction Technology, Assessment, and Engineering Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6262-9_38
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