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QUESTIONS-BANK SYSTEM TO ENHANCE E-LEARNING IN SCHOOL EDUCATION

Questions-Bank System to Enhance E-Learning in School Education
doi:10.3991/ijet.v4i3.978

Hosam F. El-Sofany , Samir A. El-Seoud2, F.F.M. Ghaleb3, Shaima Ibrahim1, and Noor Al-Jaidah1
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College of Engineering, Qatar University, Qatar Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan 3 Ain Shams University,Cairo, Egypt

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Abstract——The assessment process in an educational system is an important and essential part of its success to assure the correct way of knowledge transmission and to ensure that students are working correctly and succeed to acquire the needed knowledge. This paper describes the analysis, design, and implementation of the Questions-Bank system, that allows the students of primary,preparatory, and secondary schools to take web-based quizzes and exams, to download course reviews, and previous exams. "QuestionsBank", means that each question has a weight and area of knowledge deals with it. The system facilitates generation of automatic, balanced, and different exam sheets, that containing different types of questions, covering the entire curriculum, and displaying graduallyfrom easiness to difficulty. The exam sheet produced by the system, takes into account the different levels of the students from excellent, good, to fair, and avoids any mistakes of language and nonclear terminologies. The system allows the schools to create a Questions-Bank database, that stores the previous exams, the model answers, the reviews, and useful exercises for each course. Our systemis used successfully in distance learning as well as in self-training. We have tested the system with different type of courses taught in Qatari schools, ranged from primary to secondary levels. The feedbacks of both teachers and students were highly promising. Index Terms——E-Learning, educational systems, web-based evaluation systems, interactive applications.

I. INTRODUCTION IntroducingInternet at schools has encouraged the development of new tools and systems within the scope of education and training. As a result, a new era of learning and training approaches has emerged, where new educational models have been developed, students could learn independently at any time or location, simply by connecting to the Net along with the appropriate systems and tools. Teachers, at the sametime, could teach through ““on-line”” setting and could schedule lessons and exams without the classical physical constraints. This electronic learning approach, also known as e-learning, has opened new horizons in teaching for both teachers and students [1-4]. The assessment process in an educational system is an important and primordial part of its success to assure the correct way of knowledgetransmission and to ensure that students are working correctly and succeed to acquire the needed knowledge. Many assessment methods can be used: conducting some experiments, realizing different mini-projects, making quizzes and exams. The evaluation

mechanism help students to discover whether they have gained the required knowledge as expected, and provide appropriate and timely feedback toteachers to adjust their lectures, exercises and exams [5-7]. In this, paper we introduce the web-based "QuestionsBank" system, which can be used with any school courses and may save hours in exams and quizzes preparation and correction, as well as may save resources like, photocopying and distributing the exams papers, locations of these exams, teachers and assistants, etc. The proposed system has thefollowing functionalities and features: Knowledge evaluation: Students can evaluate their understanding levels, and teachers can track the activities of their students and can guide them to reach the pre-determined objectives of the courses Exams generation: Teachers can store many types of questions like multiple choices, true/false, and fill in the blanks. The system uses an intelligent...