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Transactions: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of EDUCATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
Transactions ID Number: 19-628
Full Name: Mihaela Idomir
Position: Associate Professor
Age: ON
Sex: Female
Address: Colinei Nr.6, Sc. A, Ap. 7, 500084
Country: ROMANIA
Tel: 728958600
Tel prefix: 40
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E-mail address: midomir@yahoo.com
Other E-mails: valentin.idomir@lmsintl.com
Title of the Paper: Web-based application for self testing and assessment in the field of Microbiology
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Mihaela Elena Idomir, Valentin Idomir, Angela Repanovici
Email addresses of all the authors: midomir@yahoo.com, valentin.idomir@lmsintl.com, repa@unitbv.ro
Number of paper pages: 8
Abstract: Several studies conducted in the domain of Web-based education tools have showed students and teachers interest in using Web applications and their added benefits to the professional knowledge development of the students. Our Web-based application was developed as an educational tool for the purpose of self testing and assessment, allowing an easy evaluation of knowledge and determining the needed improvement areas. It is addressed not only to students and residents in medicine but also to any other category of students, offering the possibility of understanding and refining the theoretical and practical knowledge. The described methodology was experimentally tested in the domains of bacteriology, virusology and parasitology. The aim of our study was to implement, with low cost, a modern Web-based solution for knowledge assessment and in the same time to make it available and easy accessible to teachers, students and medical residents. The implementation of this !
web-based application offers all the advantages provided by the Web technology (interoperability, multiple users, reusability and extendibility) and will also support these categories in evaluating and extending their knowledge in the field of Medical Microbiology. The design and concept of the application allows its extension in any educational field with minimum effort needed. The innovative aspect of our application consists in a module that will maintain the objectivity of the assessment process by preserving the same set of questions in the examination form for all the tested students. This feature is provided by creating an examination template, responsible for arranging the questions in a randomized manner and in the same time for switching the order of the response options being presented to the user. Our application offers great potential for improving the assessment and self-testing of students and residents in medicine and many advantages over traditional assess!
ment methods like: objectivity of the assessment process, larger diver
sity of tests and of their content, significant decrease of the time spent for the examination, better results in the process of evaluation and scoring.
Keywords: Web-based tool, Microbiology, knowledge assessment, online examination system.
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Special (Invited) Session: Web-Based Application for Online Self Testing and Knowledge Evaluation in the Field of Microbiology
Organizer of the Session: 635-323
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