RESEARCH: WEB BASED QUESTION BANKING

This website is constructed as a research attempt to understand the usability of past semester exam questions among the students and teachers. Questions prepared for the B.Sc Computer Science and BCA semester examinations by Bharathiar University for the past 5 years/11 semesters since November 2004 is archived here.

Though the question paper archives are available already at library, one copy of questions are not enough to serve many number of students, and thus an web-based archive is experimented here. This research is conducted under the guidance of

Prof. R. Ananthasayanam
Director of Educational Studies
Professor & Head, Dept. of Educational Technology
Bharathiar University
Coimbatore, INDIA.

by

M. Parthasarathy
Dept. of Educational Technology
Bharathiar University.

QUESTION BANK

A question bank is to be considered as important as the learning materials provided to the learners. This would help students and teaching community in various aspects as follows...

• students will understand various types of questions, different levels of questions, concentrate on thrust areas.

• will not only support the regular/distance education students preparing for the semester exams but also to those preparing for competitive exams like (UGC-NET exam, civil services exam, entrance exam, etc.).

• teachers will use these questions in the classrooms to improve the students' answering ability, help slow-learners/low-scorers by providing important questions.

• will provide key ideas for the question paper setters to enhance the quality of questioning.

OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE

Open Educational Resources (OER) are the learning contents like course materials, collections, journals ... offered freely over the internet to make education commons. The questions available in this website too function as an OER to help students and teachers at global level.