A new tool called AudioAssessment.com will be available Spring, 2008. AudioAssessment.com is a process for integrating oral exams into distance education courses. By using AudioAssessment.com distance education exams are no longer limited to objective question types and discussion questions. Using AudioAssessment.com, faculty can find out what their students really know by integrating oral exams into their online courses. Oral Exams are a form of authentic assessment in that it gives students the opportunity to demonstrate the degree to which they are conversant about the constructs being studied.
Using a patent-pending approach, faculty members may dial toll free into the AudioAssessment.com system. There they can manage their exams through tasks such as recording questions, modifying questions, selecting options such as randomization of questions from a question pool, etc. Students may also dial toll-free into the AudioAssessment.com system to hear the oral exam questions and immediately respond. Recordings of the exam answers are then either emailed directly to the faculty member or stored for archival via personal computer. Instructors have access to a clickable rubric which they can use to grade oral exams as they listen to them. AudioAssessment.com is targeted for release in early 2008.
