Blended e-learning: survey of on-line student assessment

The e-studium project (https://estudium.unipg.it/) has experimented the introduction of blended e-learning course support in heterogeneous courses of University of Perugia. The assessment process in the e-studium project consists of two main stages: first students apply for an exam through and additional module purposely developed for e-studium, and integrated in the basic platform; then online exam tests are delivered to the candidate which interacts with a quiz management module. In this paper we report and analyze data collected in the two year period 2007-2008, and referring to four Computer Science course exams. Data about exam enrollment, test assessment, number of attempts and time needed for test completion have been analyzed. A comparative time-related analysis has been carried out for the four course exams, relationships between teaching and learning activities performed over the platform have been investigated, and used to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach within an academic setting.