This study explores and describes different viewpoints on Computer Based Assessment (CBA) by using Q methodology to identify perspectives of students and instructors and classify these into perceptional typologies. Thirty undergraduate students taking CBA courses and fifteen instructors adopting CBA into their curriculum at a university in Korea, were chosen as participants in this study. As a ...

This paper is part of an attempt to explain the distinctive status of modern science within human intellectual life, and in particular the way in which it seems to undermine the legitimacy of other, traditional modes of thought. I argue that the key feature of modern scientific methodology is its testing, not of our judgments, but of the concepts employed in them. Statistical techniques represe...

This report is an output from a project funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) for the benefit of developing countries under its Natural Resources Systems Programme (project no R8280). The views expressed are not necessarily those of DFID. Research for this project was conducted by a collaborative team from the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge; EnviroLe...

Research Methods Tutor (RMT) is a dialogue-based intelligent tutoring system for use in conjunction with undergraduate psychology research methods courses. RMT includes five topics that correspond to the curriculum of introductory research methods courses: ethics, variables, reliability, validity, and experimental design. We evaluated the effectiveness of the RMT system in the classroom using a...