Often, the infrastructure for conducting an electronic examination is of a stationary form, i.e. the examination is done in a room with a fixed installation of clients (e.g. desktop PCs or thin clients). Hamburg's MINTFIT project [1] diverges from the standard model of a stationary test center to a mobile test center.
Hamburg's MINTFIT project is a cooperation of four universities and a university medical center in Hamburg. Besides electronic entry-level tests, the project develops and implements the concept of a mobile test center as well as creates the content for electronic assessment.
The mobile form of a test center shows great promise for flexibility, on the one hand due to different families of portable and mobile clients (laptops and tablets), respectively, on the other due to the use of the mobile test center tailored to the needs at varying locations.
On the basis of our previous experience with electronic assessment [2] we present our concept of a mobile test center with different families of clients and a network (LAN/WLAN) which depends on the location and the clients. We dwell on the technical concept of the test center as well as the process of conducting an electronic examination by one of the partners of the project, from the transport to the location of the examination, to building up the test center and conducting the on-site examination, up to breaking it down and the transport back from the location.
References:
[1] https://www.mintfit.hamburg/, retrieved on 21st October 2019
[2] Kruse K., Seifert C. (2018). Implementing Computer-assisted Exams in a Course on Numerical Analysis for Engineering Students. Proceedings 19th SEFI MWG, Coimbra Portugal, p. 33-38
