STUDENTS EXAMINATION THROUGH MOBILE DEVICES: M-EVALUATION
STUDENTS EXAMINATION THROUGH MOBILE DEVICES: M-EVALUATION

Summary/Abstract: Education, regardless of the embodiment, high school education, college training or workshop is always followed by an assessment of the people who participated in these courses. Possible methods of evaluation are presented to students and graduates in the classic evaluation and via mobile devices. Whatever the manner of examination, the teacher should meet with students within the college or in another location. Following the examination the teacher assesses students' theses and then meets with them for provision of results. In this paper is presented the development of applications for mobile learning environment. The development of the application is based on the client-server architecture and the communication between the mobile device and the central server is done through SOAP web services. This provides a great dynamism for examining students meaning that the questions can be changed without having to intervene in the application but only in the central server. Students examination is done through multiple choice questions and assessment is on the spot, students receive immediate result on having completed the exam, and the teacher does not have to interact with the application while the student is in exam. The exam may be held at any time no matter the hour of day or night, the service is available 24/7. The examination of students application saves in logs all actions performed by users for a further investigation or a later analysis. This analysis is presented and advices for improving the M-Evaluation of students are provided.

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