To type or handwrite: Student's experience across six e-Exam trials

Mathew Hillier

To type or handwrite: Student's experience across six e-Exam trials

Mathew Hillier

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This paper reports on student's experience of e-Exams as collected via surveys undertaken in conjunction with a series of optional live trials of an open source, bring-your-own-device (BYOD) based e-Exam system in six mid-semester undergraduate examinations during 2014 at The University of Queensland, Australia. A set of surveys were conducted prior and following each exam that covered ease of use, technical issues, comfort, confidence, time, typing versus handwriting prowess. Responses to Likert items were compared between those students who elected to type and those that handwrote their exam. Insights as to which issues proved significant for students will prove useful to institutions looking to implement computerised exams.

Original language	English
Pages	143-154
Number of pages	12
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	32nd Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning and Tertiary Education, ASCILITE 2015 - Perth, Australia Duration: 30 Nov 2015 → 3 Dec 2015

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Conference	32nd Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning and Tertiary Education, ASCILITE 2015
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Perth
Period	30/11/15 → 3/12/15

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