Carmen E. Stoenoiu

Linking Assessment to e-Learning in Microbiology and Toxicology for Undergraduate Students

An e-assessment formative multiple-choice questions experience using an auto-calibrated system is presented. The testing system is briefly described, and the testing and grading methodology used to certify abilities and knowledge in microbiology and toxicology achieved by undergraduate students are presented. The development methodology applied to multiple-choice questions bank has been introduced. The students were actively implied in creation of the multiple-choice questions bank. The paper highlighted the relationship between learning and assessment. The results had been shown the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed assessment system for both students and teacher.

Undergraduate Students Assessment on Materials Chemistry Topic using an Auto-Calibrated Online System

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.