EasyProtocol: Towards a Digital Tool to Support Educators in Oral Exams

Armin Egetenmeier, Zoe Jebing, Sven Strickroth

2025

Abstract

Along with written examinations, oral exams are an important form of assessment in higher education, providing examiners with deep insight into student understanding. However, conducting oral exams often requires significantly more effort as there is the need to carefully record all noteworthy incidents and results for legal and formal requirements. To ease the work of examiners and observers while increasing the validity and reliability of this type of assessment, a digital support software is proposed. This paper describes the design process of such a digital tool to support the implementation and note taking of oral exams, taking into account legal requirements, current oral examination practices, and the needs of both examiners and observers based on interviews and existing literature. The results were used to derive a concept and to implement a proof-of-concept prototype, which was positively validated in a small interview study. Features include automatic time recording and a guided, structured but flexible data collection (i. e. clickable items and free-text fields) and currently focus primarily on supporting observers. Further ideas regarding assessment analytics using the data are discussed.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Egetenmeier A., Jebing Z. and Strickroth S. (2025). EasyProtocol: Towards a Digital Tool to Support Educators in Oral Exams. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU; ISBN 978-989-758-746-7, SciTePress, pages 582-593. DOI: 10.5220/0013420200003932

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu25,
author={Armin Egetenmeier and Zoe Jebing and Sven Strickroth},
title={EasyProtocol: Towards a Digital Tool to Support Educators in Oral Exams},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU},
year={2025},
pages={582-593},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013420200003932},
isbn={978-989-758-746-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU
TI - EasyProtocol: Towards a Digital Tool to Support Educators in Oral Exams
SN - 978-989-758-746-7
AU - Egetenmeier A.
AU - Jebing Z.
AU - Strickroth S.
PY - 2025
SP - 582
EP - 593
DO - 10.5220/0013420200003932
PB - SciTePress