QuestionMark

QuestionMark

The Question"mark" Corporation is a major supplier of online assessment software (E-assessment) to educational institutions, public sector employers and major commercial companies worldwide, the [http://www.seda.ac.uk/ed_devs/vol1/Caalist.htm Staff and Educational Development Association] of UK Universities outlines this and some of the resources of CAA, including QuestionMark. The company was started in 1988 by current chairman John Kleeman. Major markets are across Europe (particularly the UK) and North America. The current CEO is Eric Shepherd.

The company's flagship product is Perception, an application which deploys computer-based assessments through the web or Windows, for online or offline delivery. The company claims to have a true blended approach to online assessment, as assessments can be authored through Windows, the web, or imported from Word or other QTI-compliant applications, and delivered online through web browser, offline on a CD or other removable medium, or even on paper. The current version of Perception is 4.4.

In the UK, many major universities use Perception, and in a recent survey it was found to be a more prevalant assessment engine than Blackboard alone1. Institutions using Perception include Edinburgh, Essex, Oxford, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Southampton, Dundee, Loughborough, Leeds, Swansea, Salford, Bradford, UWIC, Pembrokeshire, Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Aberystwyth, Gloucester, Hertfordshire, Thames Valley (a non-exhaustive list). QuestionMarks contribution to e-Assessment to Higher Education in the UK is specifically referenced in the ' [http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/workspace.cfm?wpid=4996 e-Assessment roadmap] ' project written by the Open University for JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee).

Question"mark" holds an annual users' conference in North America, and an academic symposium in the UK, prior to the Loughborough CAA conference.

Question"mark" were the originators of the QTI interoperability standard for CAA question interchange, which was based on their QML language, and were involved in the recent update.

References

* [http://www.questionmark.com Question"mark" Corporation official homepage]
* [http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk JiscMail, VLEs mailing list]
*Wikipedia article on QTI
*Wikipedia article on E-assessment
* [http://www.caaconference.com/ Loughborough Conference on Computer-Assisted Assessment]
# John Pritchard, Heriot Watt University to Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [BLACKBOARD-USERGROUP@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] , posted 9th August 2007.


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