Current Situation and Development Trend of English Paperless Examination

The traditional university English paper examination has many limitations that the arbitrariness of the proposition is large, and the test coverage is narrow. It pays more attention to the knowledge, but less to the ability, and the examination workload is large, which wastes the manpower, the materials and the financial resources. The subjectivity of the paper marking is large, with the lack of the information feedback and so on. On the contrary, the implementation of the paperless examination can make up for these shortcomings, produce the obvious and comprehensive benefits, realize the separation of the teaching and the testing, is conducive to the evaluation of the teachers' teaching quality and the teaching effectiveness, and improve the teaching quality and efficiency. The realization of the paperless examination of the English level exams, university English usual tests and final exams can save a lot of paper printing fees and the examination fees, greatly reduce the teachers' invigilation and marking workload, and improve the economic benefits. The advanced experience of the computer. based tests and the results of the reform of the university English tests can be used for reference for other colleges and universities, enhance their visibility of the university English teaching, and improve the social benefits. Therefore, the reform of the university traditional English tests is imminent, and the promotion of the university English computer. based test represents the general trend. The teaching evaluation is an important part of the English curriculum. A comprehensive, objective, scientific and accurate evaluation system is of vital importance to the achievement of the course goal. It is not only the important basis for the teachers to get the feedback information about the teaching, improve the teaching management, and ensure the teaching quality, but also an effective means for the students to adjust the learning strategies, improve the learning methods, and improve the learning efficiency. With the rapid development of the information technologies with the computer technologies and the communication technologies as the core, the computers are more and more widely used, and also play a more and more important role in people's work, life, and learning. The computer assisted language learning and the computer assisted language testing also emerge as the times require, and along with the development and deepening of the education reform, and the study and practice of various models of the tests, the paperless examination appears. The so. called paperless examination, simply speaking, generally refers to the examination of computers, that is, the paperless examination means that the students in the examination process do not answer in the paper on the subjects, but directly extracts or combine a set of questions on the computers from the test database, and completed within the stipulated time, and assess the exams through the computers. The characteristics of this discipline of the university English examination decide that the university English can also adopt the paperless examination. The College English Test, Band Four and Six have put into trial use the paperless examination in part of the school. Since December, 2008, the pilot tests of the College English Test, Band Four network examination have been healed many times, and the Examination Center of the Ministry of Education in the "eleventh five. year" work plan has also proposed to introduce the high. tech methods in the traditional examination. So the paperless examination may serve as a high. tech teaching evaluation system with the combination of the computer technology and the new ideas of education, which is an inevitable trend of the development in the future. Our university English final paperless exam has been implemented for several years, and the paperless examination has the following thinking.