QuestionMark

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For other uses, see Question mark (disambiguation).
The Questionmark Corporation is a major supplier of online assessment software (
E-assessment) to educational institutions, public sector employers and major com
mercial companies worldwide, the Staff and Educational Development Association o
f UK Universities outlines this and some of the resources of CAA, including Ques
tionmark. The company was started in 1988 by current chairman John Kleeman. Majo
r 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 compu
ter-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 as
sessments can be authored through Windows, the web, or imported from Word or oth
er 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 Per
ception is 4.4.
In the UK, many major universities use Perception, and in a recent survey it was
found to be a more prevalent assessment engine than Blackboard alone1. Institut
ions using Perception include Edinburgh, Essex, Oxford, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Sout
hampton, Dundee, Loughborough, Leeds, Swansea, Salford, Bradford, UWIC, Pembroke
shire, Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Aberystwyth, Gloucester, Hertfordshire, Thames
Valley (a non-exhaustive list). Questionmark's contribution to e-Assessment to
Higher Education in the UK is specifically referenced in the 'e-Assessment roadm
ap' project written by the Open University for JISC (Joint Information Systems C
ommittee).
Questionmark holds an annual users' conference in North America, and an academic
symposium in the UK, prior to the Loughborough CAA conference.
Questionmark were the originators of the QTI interoperability standard for CAA q
uestion interchange, which was based on their QML language, and were involved in
the recent update.
[edit]References
Questionmark Corporation official homepage
JiscMail, VLEs mailing list
Wikipedia article on QTI
Wikipedia article on E-assessment
Loughborough Conference on Computer-Assisted Assessment
John Pritchard, Heriot Watt University to Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [BLACK
BOARD-USERGROUP@JISCMAIL.AC.UK], posted 9 August 2007.