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Ontology-based e-assessment for accounting education

  • Kate Litherland
    ,
  • Patrick Carmichael
    ,
  • Agustina Martinez-Garcia
  • Liverpool John Moores University
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Abstract

This summary reports on a pilot of a novel, ontology-based e-assessment system in accounting. The system, OeLe, uses emerging semantic technologies to offer an online assessment environment capable of marking students' free text answers to questions of a conceptual nature. It does this by matching their response with a ‘concept map’ or ‘ontology’ of domain knowledge expressed by subject specialists. This article describes the potential affordances and demands of ontology-based assessment and offers suggestions for future development of such an approach.

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Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 498-501

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Accounting Education (Volume 22, Issue 5)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/11/2013

Publication status

Published - 01/11/2013

ISSN

0963-9284

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/622988
  • Scopus: 84887098398

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