CAA Mathematics Series / Brief Courseware News

Computer-Aided Assessment (CAA) is likely to become an important form of testing in the next decade. So that our community can debate the issues surrounding this emerging form of testing, the LTSN Maths, Stats & OR Network has initiated a series of monthly articles on CAA in mathematics. You are invited to suggest articles for this series by contacting the series editor Cliff Beevers. The third article in the series has been written by Michael McCabe of Portsmouth University. Michael has been active in CAA for a number of years and was recently awarded a national teaching fellowship. His article, amongst other things, continues the debate on whether higher order skills can be measured by automatic assessment…