Since 1985 a team at Heriot-Watts University in Edinburgh have delivered CAL/CAA software to undergraduates. Currently the CAA package developed over two decades is offering formative testing to 25 000 school pupils on 60 000 courses through the SCHOLAR Programme and summative assessment in an extension of PASS-IT in two dozen Scottish secondary schools in a one-year trial. Formative online assessment within the university continues on a number of courses too. This article attempts to chronicle the successful ingredients of the Heriot-Watt CAA software highlight the important milestones over the years and look forward to future work.
01/01/2006
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