Online Automated Assessment and Survey Tool
Judith Kirkpatrick, Professor, Language Arts Department, Kapi‘olani Community College
Herve Collin, Instructor, Math and Science Department, Kapi‘olani Community College
University of Hawai‘i
|
Historical
Perspective:
MOO Online Assessment Tool (MOOAT)
Faculty Centered 1989 thru 1999
Early
1990's assessment: The need to gather and compile data for institutional
and programmatic assessment was clear to Kirkpatrick as early as 1989-90
when she instituted, designed, and administered an electronically compiled
developmental writing program course assessment from bubble sheets. The
campus-based strategy was expanded and run on all seven of the community
colleges campuses over the 1990-1992 years.
Late
1990's assessment: Kirkpatrick's role as coordinator of the college's
Kapi'olani Information Technology Emphasis (KITE) from 1996 to the present,
has facilitated her investigation into ways to use computers to facilitate
research for faculty and administrators. Kirkpatrick had been using a
MOO (Multi-user, object-oriented) discussion space with her colleagues
and her students, from 1993-98. Since fall 1998, all of Kirkpatrick's
courses have been Internet-only, and all have used a MOO for synchronous
discussion. In 1998, Herve Collin, an undergraduate at the University
of Hawai'i, and one of Kirkpatrick's previous students, installed a MOO
for use by Kirkpatrick and her students to use on an old DELL, and Collin
began programming MOO code to support teaching.
Aloha
MOO Code
http://moosurvey.kcc.hawaii.edu
Collin developed numerous web-based teaching tools for ease of use at
the KCCMOO such as automatic teacher generated student accounts, logging of discussion in a web-based interface, and counting devices for student participation. |