This paper reports results from a study on using electronic testing tool for assessment of student knowledge in few university courses for CS education. The study was basically concerned with the effectiveness of using electronic testing tool for assessment purposes. The effectiveness was analyzed through cost savings and improvement of quality of the assessment process, viewed from both perspe...

Although researchers in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education are currently using several methods to analyze learning gains from pre- and posttest data, the most commonly used approaches have significant shortcomings. Chief among these is the inability to distinguish whether differences in learning gains are due to the effect of an instructional intervention ...

The validity of student rating measures of instructional quality was severely questioned in the 1970s. By the early 1980s, however, most expert opinion viewed student rating measures as valid and as worthy of widespread use. In retrospect, older discriminant-validity concerns were not so much resolved as they were displaced from research attention by accumulating evidence for convergent validit...

background and purpose:  student assessment is an important issue in medical education. it is necessary to use objective, valid and reliable assessment methods that are appropriate to the learning objectives and domain.the objectives of this study were 1- development of the dops test (direct observation procedural skills) and identification of its validity, reliability and acceptability. 2- eva...

For many years, ITS researchers have strived to provide better instruction. They have various kinds of student models and expert models, as well as models of student-tutor interactions. However, little research have been conducted on instructional planning, which attempts to make a sequence of instructions optimal for a student. Obviously, the better the planner, the better instructions the ITS...

Recent studies have shown that using social media such as blogs and wikis in classroom can enhance student learning. In this paper, we briefly introduce constructivist and social learning theories, blog technology and the use of blogs in education, and different design architecture of educational blogs. We then present a case study of using blogs in an undergrad level management information sys...

We describe a computational framework designed to provide adaptive support for learning from problem solving activities that make worked-out examples available. This framework targets several meta-cognitive skills required to learn effectively in this type of instructional setting, including explanation-based-learning-ofcorrectness and min-analogy. The generated interventions are based on an as...

Formative assessment is deemed the collaborative processes in which teachers and learners are engaged for the purpose of understanding the learners' learning and diagnosing their strengths and weaknesses. On the other hand, teachers' beliefs about formative assessment are paramount and might be influenced by a legion of variables such age, educational background, instructional experience, and g...

TechTrends Volume 50, Number 4 nteraction between teacher and students and among students is fundamental to higher education (Berge, 1999). Teacher-student and student-student interactions are prerequisite to course satisfaction (Allen, Bourhis, Burrell, & Mabry, 2002) and are associated with decreased attrition (Muilenburg & Berge, 2001). Thus, in all instructional contexts, including hybrid a...