Computer Assisted Assessment: All those in favour tick here.

Gavin Sim; Phil Holifield

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 2991–2994

This paper examines the attitude of students towards the introduction of computer assisted assessment (CAA). Two first year undergraduate modules were selected, one from computing and one from technology with a total sample size of 164 students. The ...

Topics: Students

Performance and Attitude of Children in Computer Based Versus Paper Based Testing

Gavin Sim; Matthew Horton

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 3610–3614

This paper reports the findings of an investigation of children's performance and attitude towards a paper based and computer based test. Twenty children, aged between 7 and 8 of mixed gender, participated in this study using a commercial software...

Topics: Software, Children, Attitudes, Computers

Students Ability to use Heuristics for Accessibility Evaluation

Nicky Danino; Gavin Sim

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 4518–4521

This paper describes a small study examining students ability to evaluate the accessibility of a government website using heuristics. Twenty one students studying an undergraduate module in web development performed the evaluations. The results...

Topics: Evaluation, Students

Using computer-assisted assessment heuristics for usability evaluations

Gavin Sim; Janet C. Read

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 47, No. 4 (July 2016) pp. 694–709

Teaching practices within educational institutions have evolved through the increased adoption of technology to deliver the curriculum and the use of computers for assessment purposes. For educational technologists, there is a vast array of...

Development of a Multimedia Cognitive Behaviour Programme for Young Offenders

Gavin Sim; Katie Taylor; Nigel Holt

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 2623–2628

Within the UK youth justice system young people can be required to complete a paper based cognitive behaviour programme in an attempt to reduce their offending behaviour. This paper reports on a project to convert the paper based programme into a...

Topics: Multimedia, Evaluation, Programming

Using Heuristics to Evaluate a Computer Assisted Assessment Environment

Gavin Sim; Janet C Read; Phil Holifield

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 635–642

Focusing on the usability of the software, this paper reports the findings from an expert evaluation of a single, off the shelf, computer assisted assessment environment with an emphasis on the context in which it is being utilised. The aim of the...

Topics: Assessment, Evaluation

Playing With Words: Evaluating Word Processors with Children

Matthew Horton; Janet Read; Gavin Sim

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 870–875

This paper describes a small pilot study that looked at the immediate usability of two commercial word processors used by children. The study compared an application which was designed for children against one predominately used by adults. The...

Topics: Children

Evaluating Usability, Fun and Learning in Educational Software for Children

Gavin Sim; Stuart MacFarlane; Matthew Horton

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 1180–1187

This paper reports the findings of an investigation into the relationship between usability fun and learning in educational software designed for children. Twenty five children from an English primary school aged between 7 and 8 participated in the...

Topics: Children, Software

Establishing a Virtual University: A Pakistan Case Study

Gavin Sim; Naveed Malik; Phil Holifield

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 5160–5165

There is a growth in demand for education and the conventional universities in Pakistan are faced with a shortage of faculty and limited capacity. This paper examines the introduction of a virtual university into the educational market in Pakistan...

Topics: Educational Technology

Children's Problem-Solving in Serious Games: The "Fine-Tuning System (FTS)" Elaborated

Chinedu Obikwelu; Janet Read; Gavin Sim

Electronic Journal of e-Learning Vol. 11, No. 1 (February 2013) pp. 49–60

For a child to learn through Problem-Solving in Serious games, the game scaffolding mechanism has to be effective. Scaffolding is based on the Vygotzkian Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) concept which refers to the distance between the actual...

All work and no play: Measuring fun, usability, and learning in software for children

Gavin Sim; Stuart MacFarlane; Janet Read

Computers & Education Vol. 46, No. 3 (April 2006) pp. 235–248

This paper describes an empirical study of fun, usability, and learning in educational software. Twenty five children aged 7 and 8 from an English primary school participated. The study involved three software products that were designed to prepare...

Language: English

Challenges in Developing Multimedia Assessment Objects

Gavin Sim; Stephanie Strong; Phil Holifield

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4379–4384

Assessment is often regarded as one of the weakest links in e-learning systems which usually offer a limited range of question styles. This paper examines the implications of developing multimedia assessment objects to be integrated into...

Topics: Assessment, Learning Objects, Multimedia

Implementation of Computer Assisted Assessment: Lessons from the Literature

Gavin Sim; Phil Holifield; Martin Brown

Association for Learning Technology Journal Vol. 12, No. 3 (September 2004) pp. 215–229

This paper draws attention to literature surrounding the subject of computer-assisted assessment (CAA). A brief overview of traditional methods of assessment is presented, highlighting areas of concern in existing techniques. CAA is then defined,...

The impact of multimodal collaborative virtual environments on learning: A gamified online debate

Ioannis Doumanis; Daphne Economou; Gavin Robert Sim; Stuart Porter

Computers & Education Vol. 130, No. 1 (March 2019) pp. 121–138

Online learning platforms are integrated systems designed to provide students and teachers with information, tools and resources to facilitate and enhance the delivery and management of learning. In recent years platform designers have introduced...

Language: English

Using a Web Based Tool to Innovate Assessment Practices

Janet Read; Gavin Sim; Peggy Gregory; Katie Taylor

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 707–712

This paper describes a web based assessment tool that was used by first year undergraduate computing students. The rationale for the project is described, referencing work on educational taxonomies. The process of relating the parts of an assignment ...

Topics: Students

Heuristic Evaluations of Computer Assisted Assessment Environments

Gavin Sim; Janet C Read; Phil Holifield; Martin Brown

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 896–905

Focusing on the usability of the software, this paper reports the findings from an expert evaluation of three, off the shelf, computer assisted assessment environments. The aim of the study was to identify whether significant usability problems...

Topics: Computers, Assessment, Evaluation, Human Computer Interaction, Research Methods