Developing a Generic Skill Assessment System Using Rubric and Checklists

Abstract

In higher education, the development and assessment of generic skills are important issues, in addition to learning specialized knowledge. This paper clarifies the characteristics of generic skill assessment activities, and then describes the necessity of an information system for generic skill assessment in relation to Learning Management Systems (LMS) and e-portfolio systems, and finally, the requirements of such a system are proposed. The basic functions of the system that meets the proposed requirements were developed in accordance with the technical standards. More specifically, to manage assessment indexes such as rubrics, the database schema was designed with reference to IMS CASE. In addition, IMS LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) was adopted, and the system was implemented as an LTI tool in order to be interoperable with educational systems such as LMS. The developed system was used in generic skill assessment activities at the Department of Information and Electronic Engineering, Teikyo University. The result of the usage demonstrated that the system was well-received by students, indicating that it can be fully used as an assessment system. A future issue will be to verify its usefulness as an assessment system by using the system over the long term.