ONLINE EXAMINATION SYSTEM

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.