Assessing students’ SQL knowledge and skills in gamification manner

The interest of educators in the game based education and gamification in university educational process grows in the last years. The paper discusses some approaches towards assessing students' SQL knowledge and skills and the application of some techniques to prevent cheating during the assessment process. In addition, assessment tools integrated in e-learning environments to test students' SQL skills are analyzed. An approach to students' self-assessment in gamification manner is presented. To support this approach a system for automated generation of the test questions in QTI format for e-learning environments is presented.