1. Electronic Assessment
Systems
Thillainatarajan Sivakumaran

2. University of Louisiana Monroe
Student Population – 8,700
Undergraduate & Graduate (3 Ph.D. programs)
College of Education & Human Development -1,700
Curriculum and Instruction
Educational Leadership & Counseling
Psychology
Kinesiology
My Role
Associate Dean
Ph.D. in Instructional Technology

3. Introduction
Purpose
Types of Electronic Assessment Systems
Identify essential assessment system capabilities
Identify stakeholders in the decision making process
Identify cost of development and maintenance of the system
Identify lessons learned

4. Types of Electronic Assessment Systems
In House or Open source
University of Minnesota
Commercial System
TaskStream
LiveText
TK-20
Dual System
Combination of in house and commercial

5. Key Components
Key components
Admission data (Test score data and H.S. GPA)
Student Teaching Data (Extensive documentation that includes both
university and school supervisor ratings)
Field Experience data (Hours and diversity)
Signature Assessments (one per course)
Forms for application for admission to Teacher Education/Student
Teaching
Student teacher evaluations of university and school supervisors
Exit Surveys
Employer survey data
Decisions/discussion notes from assessment meetings and data
review meetings

6. Personnel for Development,
Implementation & Maintenance
Personnel
Technology Coordinator
Assessment Coordinator
Graduate Assistants
Student workers

7. Cost of Electronic Assessment System
Cost
Students pay a yearly fee of $39 dollars to TaskStream
Either online at company website or through ULM bookstore
University can also pay
Collecting funds from students
Paying for the accounts from ULM budget
In house
Pay for developer
Equipment (server)

8. User of the Data Management System
Users of the System
Teacher education candidates
Faculty
Administrators
Classroom Mentor Teachers

9. Areas of Concern
Concerns
Faculty Training
Keep it simple
Student support system
Tutorial
Place for them to get help
Mentoring
Continuous update and changes
Commercial company updates
Administration once a year make changes to assessment and process
Collecting data on time
Faculty grading
Once a year collection of data

10. Discussion & Questions
Time for discussion or questions