Development and working of the Electronic Test System in the USZ University Library
Bernátsky László Dr. <>
SZTE Egyetemi Könyvtár
The number of students per course shows a continuously growing tendency lately at the University of Szeged. It is common that a course is attended by hundreds of students, making it very difficult for the lecturer to grade all pupils at the end of the semester by a verbal test. With such headcounts, the solution may be to grade students by script, but even that means a real help only if lecturers do not have to correct/evaluate each test sheet by hand.
Under such circumstances the idea of developing an electronic test system came naturally, especially because the USZ University Library has the potential of having 200 examinees to write a computerized test at the same time.
The Electronic Test System developed and successfully managed by us since two years has the following attributes:
- editor module for creating tests
- 5 types of questions
- client-server architecture
- randomly generated, equally difficult test sheet for each examinee
- examinees may not run other applications (e.g. a web browser) while working on the test
- an exam aborted due to an error can be continued - formerly entered answers are preserved
- observer module for keeping track of ongoing exams and viewing results of former exams