Introduction
The explosive growth of the Internet is making available radical new means of communication that affect such diverse areas as
business, entertainment and education. While older methods of accomplishing tasks continue
to be used, the Internet offers unique advantages. In areas of education it offers a medium that has
the potential to be more responsive to students, to encourage greater participation in their own
learning, and to give greater access to different sources of information than traditional methods
offer (Brooks, 1997; de La Beaujardiere et al., 1997; Khan, 1997). In this paper the focus is on the marriage of computerized testing systems with the World Wide Web to produce web-based
assessment and testing systems (WATS). These
systems are on the verge of becoming widely
adopted at the university level in physics and
other courses. A list of many of the WATS
known to the authors may be found in the
appendix. At least one of these systems,
WebAssign, is also currently used in several
dozen secondary schools. In the past, new types
of technology, such as audio and video
recording, have given rise to new methods of
conducting education research. In the same way,
the coming wide spread use of WATS will open
up possibilities for educational research.
Surprisingly, this area has not received much
attention in the literature (Campbell, 1997).
The adoption of WATS for student work in
physics is being driven in part by the promise of
reduced grading load and the provision of more
Introduction
The explosive growth of the Internet is making available radical new means of communication that affect such diverse areas as
business, entertainment and education. While older methods of accomplishing tasks continue
to be used, the Internet offers unique advantages. In areas of education it offers a medium that has
the potential to be more responsive to students, to encourage greater participation in their own
learning, and to give greater access to different sources of information than traditional methods
offer (Brooks, 1997; de La Beaujardiere et al., 1997; Khan, 1997). In this paper the focus is on the marriage of computerized testing systems with the World Wide Web to produce web-based
assessment and testing systems (WATS). These
systems are on the verge of becoming widely
adopted at the university level in physics and
other courses. A list of many of the WATS
known to the authors may be found in the
appendix. At least one of these systems,
WebAssign, is also currently used in several
dozen secondary schools. In the past, new types
of technology, such as audio and video
recording, have given rise to new methods of
conducting education research. In the same way,
the coming wide spread use of WATS will open
up possibilities for educational research.
Surprisingly, this area has not received much
attention in the literature (Campbell, 1997).
The adoption of WATS for student work in
physics is being driven in part by the promise of
reduced grading load and the provision of more
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