Concept

TAO (e-Testing platform)

Résumé
TAO is the French acronym for Testing Assisté par Ordinateur (Computer Based Testing). The TAO framework provides an open architecture for computer-assisted test development and delivery, with the potential to respond to the whole range of evaluation needs. It provides to all the actors of the entire computer-based assessment process a comprehensive set of functionalities enabling the creation, the management, and the delivery of electronic assessments. The TAO platform is developed by the EMACS research unit of the University of Luxembourg and the SSI department of the Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor. The TAO framework is an open-source project which provides a very general and open architecture for computer-assisted test development and delivery. The open source project only delivers a limited amount of modules as there is no Results Management. As upcoming evaluation needs will imply the collaboration among a large number of stakeholders situated at different institutional levels and with very different needs for assessment tools, the TAO framework has the ambition to provide a modular and versatile framework for collaborative distributed test development and delivery with the potential to be extended and adapted to virtually every evaluation purpose that could be handled by the means of computer-based assessment. In order to reach this goal, the testing problem has been broken down into its constitutive parts: Item development and management Subject management Test development and management Group management Test delivery management Results management These parts are implemented under the form of multiple specialized modules connected in a peer-to-peer network. As the TAO architecture should fit into many different use cases, there is no central node in the system (the whole network of TAO nodes is an open-system with no global consistency) and it is assumed that there cannot be an a priori model for each data domain that reaches consensus within all the actors.
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