IU Test

Currently, at IU South Bend, most of the instructors use paper based tests and quizzes. IU Test is a web based testing tool that allows students to take paperless tests online. The uses would range from classroom tests, placement tests, surveys with detailed statistics in all the cases. IU Test allows instructors to create question banks for each course or specialized topics and use those question banks while creating tests. IU Test can be used as a tool for collecting and analyzing pre/post test data for courses such as computer literacy (used in general education), as well as capstone courses (used for program assessment). Test results collected overtime by the IU Test system can be used as a direct measurement of student learning in key courses, and its results can be reported to the departmental and campus assessment committees. Furthermore, the results can be incorporated in reports made to disciplinary accreditation bodies such as ABET (Computer Science). Since the data in IU Test is stored in a database, longitudinal study and analysis becomes very simple. Changes made to the program can be easily assessed and the results can be compared with prior results to see if recent changes to a course or the program have had a positive outcome. In this presentation we discuss the architecture of IU Test and various open source technologies used; PHP (scripting language for web programming), MySQL (database management system), JavaScript (a browser scripting language), CSS and HTML (to display the content), and SHA2 and AES (preserving data security).

IU Test

Web-Based Tests