Evaluation of student examination answer-scripts and result compilation are two laborious but crucial post examination tasks. In the manual process of evaluation and result compilation, errors in marking, tabulation, recording, calculation coupled with the impact of Examiner subjectivity or Examiner variability, are very common. Most of the currently used methods partially address these problems by employing additional human resources and time. There is a need to adopt a unified approach that would ensure uniformity within and across examiners and deal with errors associated with evaluation and result compilation more effectively. This paper presents a pragmatic and experientially developed computer assisted evaluation of subjective answer scripts using rubrics. The proposed approach focuses on improving the evaluation and result compilation tasks by reducing/eliminating the errors and examiner variability to re-align the examination system from highly error prone to extremely robust and reliable stream.
{"title":"Effective Use of Rubrics in Computer Assisted Subjective Answer-Script Evaluation","authors":"Kissan G. G. Dessai, V. Kamat, R. Wagh","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2014.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2014.33","url":null,"abstract":"Evaluation of student examination answer-scripts and result compilation are two laborious but crucial post examination tasks. In the manual process of evaluation and result compilation, errors in marking, tabulation, recording, calculation coupled with the impact of Examiner subjectivity or Examiner variability, are very common. Most of the currently used methods partially address these problems by employing additional human resources and time. There is a need to adopt a unified approach that would ensure uniformity within and across examiners and deal with errors associated with evaluation and result compilation more effectively. This paper presents a pragmatic and experientially developed computer assisted evaluation of subjective answer scripts using rubrics. The proposed approach focuses on improving the evaluation and result compilation tasks by reducing/eliminating the errors and examiner variability to re-align the examination system from highly error prone to extremely robust and reliable stream.","PeriodicalId":151911,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127006194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Ramesh, Shitanshu Mishra, M. Sasikumar, Sridhar V. Iyer
Question repositories are organized collections of assessment questions (items) that serve many purposes. Questions required vary widely along many dimensions such as cognitive level, difficulty level content and question type depending upon the context in which it is used. This paper proposes a software system that semi-automatically generates metadata for items in a question repository. The metadata in this paper corresponds to "cognitive level", "question type", "content" and "difficulty level". The developed system was tested for its usability and accuracy and the results are promising. The accuracy with respect to automatic generation of cognitive level tags was 78% and other tags were generated with more than 90% accuracy. Usability testing has shown that the system is user friendly and useful in multiple ways.
{"title":"Semi-Automatic Generation of Metadata for Items in a Question Repository","authors":"R. Ramesh, Shitanshu Mishra, M. Sasikumar, Sridhar V. Iyer","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2014.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2014.38","url":null,"abstract":"Question repositories are organized collections of assessment questions (items) that serve many purposes. Questions required vary widely along many dimensions such as cognitive level, difficulty level content and question type depending upon the context in which it is used. This paper proposes a software system that semi-automatically generates metadata for items in a question repository. The metadata in this paper corresponds to \"cognitive level\", \"question type\", \"content\" and \"difficulty level\". The developed system was tested for its usability and accuracy and the results are promising. The accuracy with respect to automatic generation of cognitive level tags was 78% and other tags were generated with more than 90% accuracy. Usability testing has shown that the system is user friendly and useful in multiple ways.","PeriodicalId":151911,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116557938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nurendra Choudhary, Venkatesh Choppella, Y. R. Reddy, Thirumal Ravula
As education and technology merge, the diversity of teaching and learning methods expand even more. Virtual labs are a set of web applications containing learning materials that compliment the various courses in an Engineering curriculum. The primary intent of the virtual labs is to provide in-lab experience to their users even when the physical lab infrastructure is not available. In this paper, we propose a method for providing access to virtual labs for all those lack internet access. Our aim is to facilitate availability and usage of Virtual Labs without network connectivity. We preinstall the virtual labs with full environment on an Operating System and also use Debian packages for easy installation of the labs on existing Operating System.
{"title":"Any Time Virtual Labs: On Portable Media and as Debian Packages","authors":"Nurendra Choudhary, Venkatesh Choppella, Y. R. Reddy, Thirumal Ravula","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2014.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2014.9","url":null,"abstract":"As education and technology merge, the diversity of teaching and learning methods expand even more. Virtual labs are a set of web applications containing learning materials that compliment the various courses in an Engineering curriculum. The primary intent of the virtual labs is to provide in-lab experience to their users even when the physical lab infrastructure is not available. In this paper, we propose a method for providing access to virtual labs for all those lack internet access. Our aim is to facilitate availability and usage of Virtual Labs without network connectivity. We preinstall the virtual labs with full environment on an Operating System and also use Debian packages for easy installation of the labs on existing Operating System.","PeriodicalId":151911,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"83 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113933336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Nivedha, D. Dhipikaasri, C. Sunilkumar, S. Vasudevan, P. Karthikeyan
For admissions in various graduate schools and colleges. There are some mobile applications available for GRE preparation. Those applications consists of only words with their corresponding synonym which are not very effective as they to lack to provide tricks for easy remembrance of the GRE words and there is no specialized categorization of the words and they neither provide any interesting verbal games to play nor any special training for brain stimulation. This application is developed using Rho Mobile Suite which simply works on whatever mobile devices are in use and they are OS-agnostic so you can write, integrate, deploy and manage applications that work across platforms, from iOS and Android to Windows Mobile and systems. This mobile application helps the students for the preparation of GRE as well as to gain English knowledge. And it is also useful for triggering the functionalities of human brain by various brain stimulating activities under different age categories. The mobile app developed is tested with different users.
申请各种研究生院和学院。有一些移动应用程序可以用于GRE准备。这些应用程序仅由单词及其对应的同义词组成，这不是很有效，因为它们缺乏提供简单记忆GRE单词的技巧，并且没有专门的单词分类，它们既没有提供任何有趣的文字游戏，也没有任何特殊的大脑刺激训练。这个应用程序是使用Rho Mobile Suite开发的，它可以在任何正在使用的移动设备上工作，并且它们与操作系统无关，因此您可以编写，集成，部署和管理跨平台工作的应用程序，从iOS和Android到Windows Mobile和系统。这个手机应用程序帮助学生准备GRE考试，并获得英语知识。通过不同年龄段的各种脑刺激活动来触发人类大脑的功能也是有用的。开发的移动应用程序在不同的用户中进行了测试。
{"title":"A Mobile App in Cross Platform: G3 -- Gain Grip for GRE","authors":"R. Nivedha, D. Dhipikaasri, C. Sunilkumar, S. Vasudevan, P. Karthikeyan","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2014.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2014.39","url":null,"abstract":"For admissions in various graduate schools and colleges. There are some mobile applications available for GRE preparation. Those applications consists of only words with their corresponding synonym which are not very effective as they to lack to provide tricks for easy remembrance of the GRE words and there is no specialized categorization of the words and they neither provide any interesting verbal games to play nor any special training for brain stimulation. This application is developed using Rho Mobile Suite which simply works on whatever mobile devices are in use and they are OS-agnostic so you can write, integrate, deploy and manage applications that work across platforms, from iOS and Android to Windows Mobile and systems. This mobile application helps the students for the preparation of GRE as well as to gain English knowledge. And it is also useful for triggering the functionalities of human brain by various brain stimulating activities under different age categories. The mobile app developed is tested with different users.","PeriodicalId":151911,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"13 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133106208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Indian educational system caters to a diverse population. This diversity adds to the complexity and hence requires the support of technology to reach out to the masses. The Government has launched a lot of initiatives for the adoption of technology in education. Despite these efforts, there has been a gap in the actual adoption. In this paper we present the results of our study of current trends in the use of technology in academic institutions. We specially focus on openness to Open Source Software usage and try to understand the factors that influence educational institutions against open source software adoption.
{"title":"Trends in Open Source Software Adoption in Indian Educational Institutions","authors":"D. G. Sooryanarayan, Deepak Gupta, V. Rekha","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2014.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2014.26","url":null,"abstract":"The Indian educational system caters to a diverse population. This diversity adds to the complexity and hence requires the support of technology to reach out to the masses. The Government has launched a lot of initiatives for the adoption of technology in education. Despite these efforts, there has been a gap in the actual adoption. In this paper we present the results of our study of current trends in the use of technology in academic institutions. We specially focus on openness to Open Source Software usage and try to understand the factors that influence educational institutions against open source software adoption.","PeriodicalId":151911,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"20 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131750445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper studies and evaluates Technology Enhanced learning, with particular reference to the National Program for Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) a portal dedicated to technical e-content across different Engineering Colleges of India. Based on a comprehensive survey conducted across the Engineering Colleges with over 5161 respondents, predominantly from western India, this study is a quantitative analysis of the findings and preferences articulated by students and faculty members. The questions pertain to the use, quality and relevance of e-content, such as NPTEL, used by students. Questions related to faculty quality, need for online educational services, content, technologies, pedagogies, research and extension are also posed to the sample. The responses of 5161 respondents are compared and analyzed across their current profile and opinion statements on NPTEL regarding whether NPTEL leads to enrichment, whether NPTEL can supplement classroom teaching and their preferred language for lecture content. The results and findings of the paper can be of use for further modifications of NPTEL for phase II.
{"title":"Perception of NPTEL among Its Stakeholders","authors":"J. Ravi, H. J. Jani, Tushar Patel, Adit Ravi","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2014.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2014.53","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies and evaluates Technology Enhanced learning, with particular reference to the National Program for Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) a portal dedicated to technical e-content across different Engineering Colleges of India. Based on a comprehensive survey conducted across the Engineering Colleges with over 5161 respondents, predominantly from western India, this study is a quantitative analysis of the findings and preferences articulated by students and faculty members. The questions pertain to the use, quality and relevance of e-content, such as NPTEL, used by students. Questions related to faculty quality, need for online educational services, content, technologies, pedagogies, research and extension are also posed to the sample. The responses of 5161 respondents are compared and analyzed across their current profile and opinion statements on NPTEL regarding whether NPTEL leads to enrichment, whether NPTEL can supplement classroom teaching and their preferred language for lecture content. The results and findings of the paper can be of use for further modifications of NPTEL for phase II.","PeriodicalId":151911,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134130177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. H. N. Kumar, K. S. Kumar, Y. Harish, K. Vikram, J. Chakravarthi
This paper presents the design process and testing of NaVaSH, a stand-alone software application for conducting online exams. Initially, it starts with depiction of various related softwares and later RGUKT Examination System has taken as the basis and survey results were presented. Next the detailed description of NaVaSH modules along with their new features has explained with the help of intermediate snapshots, activity and usage flow charts. The observations, limitations, and initiated future works has been presented sequentially after the presentation of test results conducted on various class of students.
{"title":"NaVaSH: Examination Software for ICT Based Institutions","authors":"C. H. N. Kumar, K. S. Kumar, Y. Harish, K. Vikram, J. Chakravarthi","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2014.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2014.12","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design process and testing of NaVaSH, a stand-alone software application for conducting online exams. Initially, it starts with depiction of various related softwares and later RGUKT Examination System has taken as the basis and survey results were presented. Next the detailed description of NaVaSH modules along with their new features has explained with the help of intermediate snapshots, activity and usage flow charts. The observations, limitations, and initiated future works has been presented sequentially after the presentation of test results conducted on various class of students.","PeriodicalId":151911,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"209 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114219794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vinay S. Shekhar, Akshata Prabhu, K. Puranik, L. Antin, Viraj Kumar
JFLAP is a popular open-source software tool used in Formal Languages and Automata courses. In this paper, we present two kinds of enhancements to JFLAP's capabilities with regards to finite automata: (1) we provide instructors with the ability to understand difficulties faced by students on an individual and collective basis by tracking student progress as they solve automata construction problems, and (2) we offer students a simple and intuitive means to specify correctness of their automata constructions, and a mechanism to easily test their automata against such correctness specifications. We believe that these extensions enhance the value of JFLAP as a resource for both instructors and students.
{"title":"JFLAP Extensions for Instructors and Students","authors":"Vinay S. Shekhar, Akshata Prabhu, K. Puranik, L. Antin, Viraj Kumar","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2014.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2014.22","url":null,"abstract":"JFLAP is a popular open-source software tool used in Formal Languages and Automata courses. In this paper, we present two kinds of enhancements to JFLAP's capabilities with regards to finite automata: (1) we provide instructors with the ability to understand difficulties faced by students on an individual and collective basis by tracking student progress as they solve automata construction problems, and (2) we offer students a simple and intuitive means to specify correctness of their automata constructions, and a mechanism to easily test their automata against such correctness specifications. We believe that these extensions enhance the value of JFLAP as a resource for both instructors and students.","PeriodicalId":151911,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"416 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116000145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abhinav Anand, Aditi Kothiyal, Bipin Rajendran, S. Murthy
An important goal of undergraduate engineering education is to develop students' ability to solve complex, real world problems. Such problems involve the building of physical and mathematical models of real-world scenarios, identifying correct parameters of the model, devising numerical solution methods, and optimizing the solution. In typical engineering courses, solution methods are demonstrated in problem-solving tutorials while programming is relegated to homework or lab, wherein students may not get ample feedback on their choices of optimization or solution evaluation. In this paper, we propose a strategy, Guided Problem Solving and Group Programming (GPGP) to overcome this gap. Students work in peer groups within class, to build and implement their mathematical models and solutions, then write programs to do optimization and evaluation. We implemented this strategy in a 4th year electrical engineering course in which GPGP was done four times over the semester. We assessed students' performance on dimensions of problem solving such as representing the problem, developing solution, making justification for proposed solution and monitoring and evaluating problem space and solutions across the semester and found a statistically significant improvement. Further students perceived that they had learned engineering problem solving via GPGP and reported enjoying the strategy in class.
{"title":"Guided Problem Solving and Group Programming: A Technology-Enhanced Teaching-Learning Strategy for Engineering Problem Solving","authors":"Abhinav Anand, Aditi Kothiyal, Bipin Rajendran, S. Murthy","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2014.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2014.10","url":null,"abstract":"An important goal of undergraduate engineering education is to develop students' ability to solve complex, real world problems. Such problems involve the building of physical and mathematical models of real-world scenarios, identifying correct parameters of the model, devising numerical solution methods, and optimizing the solution. In typical engineering courses, solution methods are demonstrated in problem-solving tutorials while programming is relegated to homework or lab, wherein students may not get ample feedback on their choices of optimization or solution evaluation. In this paper, we propose a strategy, Guided Problem Solving and Group Programming (GPGP) to overcome this gap. Students work in peer groups within class, to build and implement their mathematical models and solutions, then write programs to do optimization and evaluation. We implemented this strategy in a 4th year electrical engineering course in which GPGP was done four times over the semester. We assessed students' performance on dimensions of problem solving such as representing the problem, developing solution, making justification for proposed solution and monitoring and evaluating problem space and solutions across the semester and found a statistically significant improvement. Further students perceived that they had learned engineering problem solving via GPGP and reported enjoying the strategy in class.","PeriodicalId":151911,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"58 22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121990029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Boosting interactions and engagement of students in a classroom and remote learning is the major focus of our research. The software that has been developed named as Clicker is an android and web based system, designed to aid the teacher and the students to perform assessment, instant feedback and raise anonymous doubts. The software has been specifically designed for two distinct environments, viz., classroom and remote learning environment. Newly added features in Student Response System (SRS) are raising doubts remote learning and make the SRS more interactive. We have conducted two surveys in the remote learning mode with 5882 engineering faculty across India. The results of the survey indicate the better features and acceptance of the developed software.
{"title":"Clicker: Device Independent Student Response System, Developed for Classroom and Remote Learning to Provide Instant Response and Feedback","authors":"D. Rajavel, R. Kushalkar","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2014.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2014.4","url":null,"abstract":"Boosting interactions and engagement of students in a classroom and remote learning is the major focus of our research. The software that has been developed named as Clicker is an android and web based system, designed to aid the teacher and the students to perform assessment, instant feedback and raise anonymous doubts. The software has been specifically designed for two distinct environments, viz., classroom and remote learning environment. Newly added features in Student Response System (SRS) are raising doubts remote learning and make the SRS more interactive. We have conducted two surveys in the remote learning mode with 5882 engineering faculty across India. The results of the survey indicate the better features and acceptance of the developed software.","PeriodicalId":151911,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129162989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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