Computer aided system for student's knowledge assessment

Purpose: According with the principles of impartial evaluation of the students' knowledge, with the national trends in ensuring the efficient and effective end-of-course evaluation, the authors developed an original computer-assisted examination system. Materials and Methods: The information discussed at courses and laboratory class, for the Physical Chemistry Course and for the Microbiology and Toxicology Course were transposing into multiple-choice questions and was included into a database by the use of MqSQL database server. Using the futures offered by PHP programming language, the interface of computer-assisted system was connected with the multiple-choice database and was implemented. Results: The computer-assisted end-of-course evaluation system was created and is available via the address: http://vl.academicdirect.org/general_chemistry/physical_chemistry/(for Physical Chemistry evaluation), and http://vl.academicdirect.org/general_chemistry/microbiology_toxicology/ (for Microbiology and Toxicology evaluation). The end-of-course evaluation contains a number of thirty multiple-choice questions with at least one correct answer and is available just in test center the access to the evaluation being restricted by the IP addresses. Conclusion: The online computer-assisted evaluation system proved to be a real solution in end-of course assessment, providing a more accurate and more efficient evaluation in terms of objectivity as well as in term of time.