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EChemTest.net
ECTN Association - European Chemistry Test
Welcome to the ACE 2005 General Assembly
Dr. Pascal Mimero
ECTN Association
ESCPE Lyon, France
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), 4-8 May 2005
ECTN Association - European Chemistry Test
EChemTest.net
What is EChemTest ?
It is made for … ?
EChemTest.net
What is EChemTest ?
The European Chemistry Test …
ECTN Association - European Chemistry Test
 Electronic Testing platform online developed by the ECTN
 Aims to deliver electronic tests to evaluate your knowledge
and skills in various fields of Chemistry
 Funded by the European Commission within the Socrates and
Thematic Network frames
 Further details ? visit our website at: www.EChemTest.net
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It is made for … ?
Enables to monitor …
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 Student exchange program
– Chemistry knowledge evaluation in the native language
– Chemistry understanding in a foreign language
 Professional career progression
– Industrial mobility
– Continuous education
– Example: R&D in organic synthesis, analytical skills
 Life Long Learning process
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Domains: today & future
Tests available today
• Pre-University Levels
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– General Chemistry 1
– General Chemistry 2
• University Chemistry
studies
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Analytical Chemistry 3
Inorganic Chemistry 3
Organic Chemistry 3
Physical Chemistry 3
• Over 2800 questions
Development …
Actual: Biological Chemistry
– Bio-Organic
– Bio-Inorganic
Tomorrow starting now
– Level 4: University Chemistry
studies in Organic Chemistry
Possible in the future ?
– Chemical Engineering
– Environmental Chemistry
– Polymer Chemistry
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Paleo-chronology …
few words about the ancient time
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Once upon a time …
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• It was in the year 1996 …
… the “Objective 1” Socrates projects
• 1997, Helsinki … fighting to convince people it could work !
– After hours of discussion, arguments and work with working groups …
– After thousands of disappointing crashes with … “?”
• 1998, the so called “Core Chemistry Test” was unveiled for
the first time to the ECTN Audience at the plenary meeting
held in the beautiful island of Rhodes in Greece !
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Once upon a time …
• 2000, last Windows CDRom issued with the old platform
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• 2001-2003, the EU funding break !!
– Renamed as “EChemTest”, the European Chemistry Test
– First set of data transferred to the Perception platform, and
prepared to the wild Internet technology
• 2003-2004, beta tests (demo and certification database)
• 2005, finally unveiled … again in Greece, in the nice place of
Thessaloniki
• Already - Only 7 years old ;-)
… Happy birthday EChemTest !!
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… EChemTest today !!
Team Organization
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Coordination
Lyon FR
Pre-University
Levels
University
Bachelor Level
University
Master Level
IT Services
General Chem 1
Analytical Chem 3
Synthetic Chem 4
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Helsinki FI
Ioannina GR
Cologne DE
Perugia IT
General Chem 2
Biological Chem 3
IT New Dev.
Helsinki FI
Leiden NL
Vienna AT
Inorganic Chem 3
Reading UK
Organic Chem 3
Helsinki FI
Physical Chem 3
Madrid ES
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Structure & Frame
• Session of Test
– One hour session composed by up to 30 questions
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• Question
– One question represent one specific topic
– Question taken at random from a question bank of libraries
• Topic
– Choose according to the Chemistry Core Curriculum
– Agreed at the European level
• Difficulty
– Increasing throughout the test
– From introductory to intermediate and advanced grade of difficulty
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2 Categories of tests
“Demo / Training Test”
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• Static sample session
• Prior taking any of the
certification test session
“Certification Test”
• Full set of European Languages
currently transferred from the
old platform
• Dynamic session at random
• European Chemistry Certificate
at pre-university or at University
levels of studies issued by the
ECTNA
• English versions in operation now
and only available in approved
testing centers
 Freely accessible online after
 Sessions monitored and taken
registration
under controlled conditions
 ECTNA members are awarded
with a free access to
certification tests
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Website access …
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www.echemtest.net
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Tests online
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Training
online
Training
in preparation
Nb Q
Certification
online
Gene Chem 1
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bg, de, en,
fi, fr, it, pt
es, no, se
380
en
Gene Chem 2
30
bg, de, en,
fi, fr, it, pt
es, no, se
440
en
Anal Chem 3
30
cz, da, en,
gr, it, pt, sk
de
300
en
Inor Chem 3
30
en
300
en
Orga Chem 3
30
bg, de, en,
fi, fr, it, se
700
en
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da, de, es,
bg, en, fi, it fr, nl, no, pt,
se
400
en, it
Phys Chem 3
170
es
Certification
in preparation
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de, fr, it
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Technical and Business stuff
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Quality insurance: Content
• All questions of a single topic according to the European
Common Core Curriculum frame …
– Equivalent as content to each other
– Equivalent as scoring
– Equivalent as the grade of difficulty
• Questions developed at the European level by an
international team
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Quality insurance: Certification
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• Delivery controlled condition (time limit, scheduled sessions,
personal account, number of attempts, …)
• Monitoring of the certification test session (testing
centers) and Records of each sessions on the Server
• Encrypted session, protection by Login/Password
• Backup of the data
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Quality insurance: Technology
• Developed with the commercial software QuestionMark
Perception www.questionmark.com (providing Industrial and
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Academic clients for evaluation, certification, assessment worldwide)
• Following the CAA Software Guidelines
• Encrypted session, protection by Login/Password
(administration level, end-user level, database storage)
• Material delivered online “virus-free” / Symantec virus
database automatic update
• Backup of all databases (questions, sessions, results)
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Testing centers
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• The EChemTest Certification sessions are delegated to
EChemTest centers officially recognized by the ECTN
Association.
• In order to be recognized by the ECTN Association the
EChemTest Center (full Association members or foreign
bodies) has to fulfil pre-requisites related to :
– The context and logistic (computer room, maintenance, …)
– The examination conditions (secure network, band width, …)
– The examination procedure (monitoring, ID control, …).
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General conditions
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ECTN Assoc members
classroom or
individual candidates
General
Conditions
Non ECTN Assoc members
and other bodies,
individual candidates
1. Individual registration (login, password)
2. All demo/training sessions accessible for free
3. Randomized test Options : individual (self-assessment);
individual (certification); classroom (academic evaluation)
Certification
test Cost for
randomized
tests
50€ for each registered tests
and each participant
Individual Certification, selfassessment, academic evaluation
No charge for standard tests
Handling cost
Charged by testing centers, PC room maintenance service, …
European
Certification
Issued if Successful examination
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EChemTest 2005 Dissemination
Already presented
Coming next …
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June:
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July:
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August:
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September:
February:
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– Seminar @ U. of Perugia IT
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March:
– Research seminar @ U. of Helsinki FI
(LERU 2005)
– Lecture @ U. of Sofia BG
Lecture @ Lovech BG
(41st Nat. Conf. of Bulgarian
Teachers in Chemistry)
– Oral session @ Autrans FR
(MIEC-JIREC Conference)
– Workshop @ Yliema Hotel MT
(NAUCTS Summer School)
– Workshop+Lecture @ Jagiellonian U.
of Kraków PL
(Eurovariety in Chemistry)
– Lecture @ UBC Vancouver BC CA
(ChemEd 2005)
– Lecture @ Shevshenko U. of Kiev UA
(AC&CA 2005)
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EChemTest and Eurobachelor ?
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• 2 of the current projects coordinated by ECTN …
• EChemTest: electronic automatized platform of tests in
chemistry evaluating the knowledge in chemistry and the
chemistry understanding in foreign languages, at preuniversity and University study levels, by no mean will
replace any national examination or diploma, but will help
students and teachers with self-assessment and individual
academic progression monitoring for example.
• Chemistry Eurobachelor: a label delivered to accredited
Universities running the Bologna Process with their own
National examinations, providing a DS and the individual
student progression.
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And now …
On behalf of the ECTN Network and Association,
I officially invite our friend and local organizer to join me
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Evangelia
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instead of cutting the traditional blue ribbon
to avoid any trouble with the Internet cable
My great pleasure to invite you to
press on the link below
Login “ECTN2005”, Password “demo”
and choose the test you want …
http://echemtest.unipg.it
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Acknowledgement …
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• All contributors could not fit in this list, but I thank them all
for the hard job done and the time spent on EChemTest
• At least the identified group members and translators:
Vincenzo Aquilanti, Eva Åkesson, Gustavo Avitabile, Ana Barros, Gérard Bauduin, Laura
Bobocea, Mike Bridge, Maria-Filomena Camoes, David Cardin, Rinaldo Cervelatti, David
Cocker, Cecilia Coletti, Dario Compagnone, Jose-Marie Diaz Cruz, Pavel Drasar, Ivan
Dukov, Constantinos Efstathiou, Markus Enders, Mariano Fajardo, Georges Francis,
Marek Frankowicz, Johannes Fröhlich, Michael Gagan, Jeremy Glennon, Jean Grimaud,
Elo Hansen, Tapio Hase, Flemming Hegelund, Bengt Jergil, Jens Josephson, JeanClaude Kaell, Eija Kaija, Jari Kaperi, Jorma Koskimies, Miltiades Karayannis, Richard
Kempa, Zdenka Keuc, Henryk Koroniak, Jan Labuda, Antonio Lagana, Risto Laitinen,
Maria-Clara Magalhaes, Janine Mareche, Colin Marsden, Terry Michell, Raluca Mocanu,
Kalina Mutafchieva, Matti Näsäkkälä, Panos Nikitas, Derek Nonhebel, Ad Oskam, Denis
Papaioannou, Gino Paolucci, Bjorn Pedersen, Valentina Piermarini, Cornel Radu, Juan
Antonio Rodriguez-Renuncio, Josep Ricart, Cesare Roll, Marina Rui, Marta Salisova,
Mudis Salkauskas, Hans-Günther Schmalz, Anthony Smith, Clare Smith, Laszlo Somsak
and his student’s group, Peter Ten Holte, Paolo Todesco, Alan Townshend, Arne van der
Gen, Evangelia Varella, Anastasios Varvoglis, Janna Velder, Anna von Barth, GianGualberto Volpi, Kristiina Wähälä, Richard Whewell, Ken Williamson, Bin Zwanenburg,
…
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But the adventure is just starting …
with the new AC Team
Thank you very much
for your attention
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