Work in progress - mobile computer based classroom assessment

Formative assessment of student progress and attitudes is important to our continuous improvement process, but collecting and compiling the data is burdensome without using computer tools. This research is to set up a mobile computer based lab that enables faculty who teach in traditional classrooms without computers to use testing and survey tools. The technologies necessary to develop such system including wireless communication, World Wide Web (WWW), database, and mobile computing are investigated in this research. The real-time based formative assessment of student is proposed. A hardware configuration for real-time assessment is also proposed in the research