Intelligent Question Bank and Examination System

Abstract

Question bank can be described as the databank that keeps all the examination questions whether pre-existing or created by user. Web-based examination is an online assessment tool that used to evaluate students’ performance. Examination will incorporate questions with varying complexity from question bank. Students are required to response to those examination questions. With this, examination serves as the assessment tool to track student understanding of the classroom material. This research is to develop an online Intelligent Question Bank and Examination System (IQBAES), which will make use of open source technology. The technologies include java server pages (jsp), servlet, jdbc thin driver, jfreechart, ant, xml, log4j and hibernate. The system run on Tomcat 4.1 Application Server resides on a J2EE framework, which makes use of Model View Controller (MVC) design pattern. Hibernate technology is used to access the database. The system that had been developed enable lecturer to author and store a bank of webbased questions. Furthermore, this system able to assemble questions and generate exam based on lecturer’s specifications. The examination module allowed user to conduct examination over the Internet and Intranet. Questions from various topics with different level of complexity can be included and assigned to user as per the level. Upon examination completed, the system able to grade student based on the questions with varying complexity they have answered.