Abstract:
Sri Lankan government schools are increasingly using Information Communication
Technologies (lCTs) for student learning and other school functions. Sri Rahula
Balika Maha Vidyalaya (RBV) is also incorporating ICT applications to streamline
school management practices. This research examines the implementation of an
Online Examination System (OES), which will make use of open source technology.
Sustainability literature was used to examine the key measures to identify changes in
ICT practices at the school by students, teachers and other school staff.
Question bank can be described as the databank that keeps all the examination
questions whether pre-existing or created by user. Web-based examination is an
online assessment tool used to evaluate students' performance. Examination will
incorporate questions with varying complexity from question bank. Students are
required to respond to those examination questions. With this, examination serves as
the assessment tool to track student understanding of the classroom material.
The system that had been developed enables a teacher to author- and store a bank of
web-based questions. Furthermore, this system is able to assemble questions and
generate exam based questions on lecturers' specifications.
The examination module allowed user to conduct examination over the Internet and
Intranet. Questions from various topics with different levels of complexity can be
included and assigned to user as per the levels. Upon completion of examination, the
system is able to grade students based on the questions with varying complexity they .
have answered.
