Workshop Report: Computer Aided Assessment in Statistics at Heriot Watt University

On Tuesday 5 March 2002 under the auspices of the LTSN Maths, Stats & OR Network there was a seminar on “Computer-Aided Assessment (CAA) in Statistics at Heriot-Watt University” held in the Department of Statistics & Modelling Science at the University of Strathclyde. The seminar was conducted by Cliff Beevers (Director of CALM), Athol Korabinski (Senior Lecturer in Statistics) and Jane Paterson (Research Fellow in Assessment) all based on the Riccarton campus of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. The seminar was in four parts: (i) A history of CALM (Computer-Aided Learning in Mathematics); (ii) CAA in Statistics in current use at Heriot-Watt; (iii) Statistics in the Scholar Programme; and, (iv) An introduction to the CUE Assessment System…