Classroom Assessment and Analysis System: Using Tablet PCs and Cloud Computing to Improve Effectiveness of Classroom Assessment

摘要

Assessment plays an important role in education. In traditional classrooms, it is difficult to know student's learning status and the instructional feedback being a certain degree of subjectivity and a certain delay. The application of mobile devices in classrooms makes the collection of assessment data possible. Cloud computing has a powerful computing resources and can handle the large amounts data produced in the process of classroom assessments. In this paper, we present the requirements and architecture of Classroom Assessment and Analysis System. It has been used several research studies in primary schools to organize classroom assessment activities and provide real-time analysis reports to improve the effectiveness of classroom assessment.