Online Assessment Tools

The links below provide access to a handful of free or inexpensive web-based tools which may be useful for a variety of assessment and evaluation purposes. Web sites that are designated ** indicate tools that we have found particularly effective. Additional lists of tools can be found under the links at the bottom of this page.

Quiz, test, and assignment tools

CASTLE—Cost-free for non-profit educational uses; easy to use tool for creating multiple choice quizzes; includes web hosting:
http://www.le.ac.uk/castle/

**DiscoverySchool.com Quiz Center— Cost-free for non-profit educational uses; easy to use tool for creating wide variety of quiz types; automated student feedback function available; includes web hosting:
http://school.discovery.com/quizcenter/quizcenter.html

**Hot Potatoes—Cost-free for non-profit educational uses; easy to use tool for developing and administering 6 types of quizzes; automated student feedback functions are built in to all quizzes; includes web hosting:
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/

QuizBuilder--Cost-free, very easy to use tool for building simple quizzes with selected- or constructed-response items; does not include web hosting (user has to input url for quiz dissemination):
http://ils.unc.edu/balus/oit/quizv2/

WebAssign—Commercial online assignment, homework, and grading management and feedback system; limited free trial available:
http://www.webassign.net/

Webauthor, Language Resource and Research Center, University of Pennsylvania—Cost-free templates for a variety of quiz, self-assessment, cloze, and other assessment activities and exercises; automatically creates source code scripts; no web hosting (user has to copy scripts to own web site):
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/larrc/webauthor.html

Survey and course evaluation tools

FAST, Free Assessment Summary Tool—Cost-free, not too flexible (in terms of item formatting), easy to use web-based course evaluation tool:
http://www.getfast.ca/

**Student Assessment of Learning Gains--Cost-free, moderately flexible, easy to use web-based course evaluation tool; includes item templates, which may be adapted or eliminated; very reliable server and simple web interface; provides raw data tables and some descriptive statistics:
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/salgains/instructor/default.asp

Commercial online survey software—The following are a few of the commercial web-based survey tools we’ve explored and worked with (there are many, many others out there); each of these offers a free demonstration account; these accounts are always limited in terms of survey design and reporting flexibility, the number of respondents allowed, or the length of time available for the demo account:

Flashlight Online
http://www.tltgroup.org

SurveyMaker
http://www.surveymaker.com.au/sm/default.cfm

**SurveyMonkey
http://www.surveymonkey.com

SurveySuite
http://intercom.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/intercom/SurveySuite/ss_index.pl

Zoomerang
http://www.zoomerang.com

A few other interesting, specific-purpose assessment tools

E-Prime—Commercial software for designing and conducting a wide range of psychological tests; includes options for collecting variety of data types (e.g., response times):
http://www.pstnet.com/products/e-prime

IHMC Concept Mapping tool—Cost-free, downloadable toolkit for online generation of concept maps:
http://cmap.coginst.uwf.edu/

PsyScope—Cost-free, earlier version of E-Prime; Macintosh-based:
http://psyscope.psy.cmu.edu/

Overviews and collections of online assessment and evaluation tools

Check out these sites for links to additional tools and resources, reviews of tools, etc.:

http://caacentre.lboro.ac.uk/resources/web/onlres4.shtml

http://www.uoregon.edu/~jqj/edtech/testing.html

http://websm.org/companiesoft.html