Launch Pilot programme Idem Dito
Pilot programme
In the second half of October the distributors of Quayn, LPlus, Teletoets and QMP provided training for the pilot team consisting of co-ordinators, test supporters and student assistants from the participating faculties. After that the so-called pilot programme was launched.
The pilot programme is the heart of the Idem Dito project. In the period from December 2011 to May 2012 four testing packages will be tried out in practice. The faculties of Medical Sciences, Arts and Economics and Business will transfer existing and new tests to each of the selected systems and will use these to administer (trial) test takes with students.
Lecturers will be involved in making and editing test items and assessing and grading open questions and essays. Test specialists will give advice on putting together item banks and (re-)using items from these. They will also examine the packages on functions specific to item and testanalysis and features on setting the final scores. Technologists will investigate how the different packages can be used together with the study registration system Progress and the virtual learning environment Nestor (Blackboard).
The pilot programme has been prepared in such a way that at the end of the programme a well-founded proposal can be drafted about the package that is most suitable for the University of Groningen and the way in which this may best be integrated in the university organisation.
Preliminary planning of pilots
The faculties of Medical Sciences, Arts and Economics and Business have selected a number of tests from the existing curricula which will be used in the pilots as trial tests for students or practice tests for lecturers. The following pilots are currently in preparation: the tests are imported into the testing systems, instruction materials are prepared and criteria for evaluation are determined.
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Naam |
Plaats |
Tijd |
Omschrijving |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Essay task Accountancy (FEB) |
Aletta Jacobshal, room 3 |
2 December, 9-12 |
Students write an essay as a trial test for the Accountancy course. |
|
Language tests Language Centre (Arts) |
Personal workplace |
5 December until 24 December |
Language centre teachers will make the general language centre English test and a listening test, acting as students. To be taken at location and time of their choice. |
|
Trial test non-Western languages, with gap-filling text (Arts) |
Personal workplace |
Mid December |
For Russian a variant of the final exam of the pre-university school programme (VWO) will be used to try out the input and output of non-Western character sets. This will include the use of test items on the basis of a gap-filling text (cloze). |
|
History: Foundations of civilization II (Arts) |
Aletta Jacobshal, room 3 |
20 December, 9-12 |
Trial test for a course of 250 students, a (as yet unknown) number of whom will participate. |
|
Teacher pilot 1 (FMS) |
Combizaal FMS |
20 December, 15-17 |
Teacher walk throughs of the packages following a pre-determined scheme. This will include entering new and existing questions, composing a test and labelling items. For the latter, data will have been entered into the tests beforehand. Pilots are open to teachers of other faculties (see below). |
|
Teacher pilot 2 (FMS) |
Combizaal FMS |
20 December, 17-19 |
Cancelled. |
|
Pilot Master students Medical Sciences (FMS) |
KTC FMS |
17 January, 19.30-21 |
Test take of the 6-weekly Master test, year 1 (real test) |
| Teacher pilot 3 (FMS) |
Combizaal FMS |
25 January, 15-17 |
See above. |
| Teacher pilot 4 (FMS) |
Combizaal FMS |
25 January, 17-19 |
See above. |
| Pilot Bachelor students Medical Sciences (FMS) |
Aletta Jacobshal, room 3 |
31 January, 19.30-21 | Trial test take for the Medical Sciences Bachelor. |
Participating in the pilots
The pilots aim to involve future users as much as possible in the selection of a digital testing system for the University of Groningen. The above-mentioned teacher pilots introduce teachers to the possibilities of the different systems and are open to teachers from the whole university.
Next phase
After conclusion of the above-mentioned pilots, a new round of pilots will be started in the spring of 2012. More details about this will be released from January 2012 through this web site and through the faculty contacts for the project.
If you are interested in the possibilities of digital testing, do not hesitate to make this known to your faculty contact!
Faculty contacts:
- Medical Sciences: B.F. Mulder
- Economics and Business: A.J. Kerkhof
- Arts: P.M. de Groot
- Philosophy: A.A. Veenkamp
- Spatial Sciences: P.D. Groote
- Law: B.A.A. Beijer
- Mathematics and Natural Sciences: C.D. Visser
- Theology and Religious Studies: M.P.A. de Baar
- Behavioural and Social Sciences: R.J. van Ouwerkerk
For further information on the project, you may also contact the project manager, Sake Jager (CLIQ, Faculty of Arts).
| Last modified: | 08 January 2024 1.50 p.m. |
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