THE USE OF METADATA IN SCORM SHAREABLE CONTENT OBJECTS AS A QUALITY BOOSTING TOOL IN ON LINE COURSES FOR EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF LEARNING PROBLEMS

Abstract

Every quality improving process necessarily involves a measuring and diagnosis instance. Formation processes are both historically and methodologically associated with some testing. This paper focuses on the assessments of learning, which is regarded as a tool to improve the quality of learning projects. Learning assessments is usually achieved by means of self-assessing and final tests. Tests’primary function is to diagnosis individuals’learning process (and according to metacognition, self-diagnosis), and the problems arising from it; the results regarded as a whole and as a common feature among all of the participants of the study group may evidence, however, a problem in the quality of the training program. Therefore, this tool may serve both purposes: early diagnosis of individuals’learning problems and the effectiveness of the learning program.  This paper discusses the feasibility to determine a number of both dependent and independent variables within the SCORM metadata of the assessment objects. Such dependent variables result from a polynomic association of independent variables. The program allows the researcher to select the number as well as the connection between those variables at will, automatically providing all the data which the researcher deems necessary, in a record table format.