eAssessment in English for specific purposes

摘要

The aim of this work, which is a case study, is to present the way eAssessment could be applied in assessing the student knowledge of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) at institutions of higher education (HEI) using Drupal, a free software package that allows anyone to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website, allowing tight control over who can create, view, manage, publish and otherwise interact with the content on the website. The work is based on the example of the Polytechnic of Rijeka, Croatia, Transport Department (Road and Rail Transport and Postal Services), second year part-time students, course The English Language 3, a questionnaire the students have filled out regarding the students' opinion on online knowledge summative assessment, and the statistical analyses on various aspects of their accomplishment both in partial and final written exams. It results that both from the students' and teacher's point of view the online assessment is satisfactory, welcome and recommendable not just in ESP but in other courses as well.