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Shi, Yang; Chi, Min; Barnes, Tiffany; Price, Thomas W. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2022
Knowledge tracing (KT) models are a popular approach for predicting students' future performance at practice problems using their prior attempts. Though many innovations have been made in KT, most models including the state-of-the-art Deep KT (DKT) mainly leverage each student's response either as correct or incorrect, ignoring its content. In…
Descriptors: Programming, Knowledge Level, Prediction, Instructional Innovation
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Shi, Yang; Schmucker, Robin; Chi, Min; Barnes, Tiffany; Price, Thomas – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2023
Knowledge components (KCs) have many applications. In computing education, knowing the demonstration of specific KCs has been challenging. This paper introduces an entirely data-driven approach for: (1) discovering KCs; and (2) demonstrating KCs, using students' actual code submissions. Our system is based on two expected properties of KCs: (1)…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Data Analysis, Programming, Coding
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Dinç, Emre; Millet, April L. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2022
This study investigated the effect of different assessment types on overall success in an online geoscience course covering energy's impact on the environment. Two groups took either the slower 1-credit or the faster 3-credit version of the course, which utilized the same content. Self-assessment questions developed using H5P, quizzes, summative…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Summative Evaluation, Capstone Experiences, Energy
Nicholas, Mark; Raider-Roth, Miriam – Online Submission, 2011
This investigation focused on a group of 17 faculty drawn from disciplines in the humanities social sciences and natural sciences. Using in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and qualitative coding strategies, this study examined how faculty conceptualized the term critical thinking (CT), and how they assessed for it in general education…
Descriptors: General Education, Standardized Tests, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
Langsam, Deborah M. – 1994
Students often arrive at universities ill-prepared for the reflective practice needed to derive maximum benefits from a Freshman Seminar. At the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, portfolio projects are semester-long assignments in which the portfolio serves as a capstone activity to help freshmen more thoroughly analyze their first year…
Descriptors: Accountability, Assignments, Elective Courses, Evaluation Methods
Harrison, Suzan – 1991
Eckerd College in Florida has instituted portfolio assessment in writing classes, a method which invites students to engage in learning on a variety of levels. Portfolios encourage students to consider the responses of various readers in their revision processes, claim ownership of their writing, review the papers they have written in college,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Portfolios (Background Materials), Student Evaluation
Booth-Butterfield, Melanie – 1986
Two hypotheses were posed in a study that examined the communicative consequences of structured versus nonstructured tasks on subjects with varying levels of communication apprehension (CA): (1) task structure and level of CA will interact to predict behavioral disruption in dyads, and (2) CA and evaluation will interact to predict behavioral…
Descriptors: Assignments, Behavior Patterns, Classroom Environment, Communication Apprehension
Hawe, L. Q. – Aspects of Educational and Training Technology Series, 1992
The recognition that knowledge, competence, and contribution are stages on a continuum has major implications for assessment methods. Written examinations are thought convenient and cost effective, but if students are to be evaluated as future employees, assignments and examinations should have professional relevance. Students can be best…
Descriptors: Assignments, Case Studies, Competence, Educational Change
Stroble, Elizabeth J. – 1992
Secondary teacher education students should be given clear instruction in the assembling and assessment of professional teaching portfolios. In the teacher education program at the University of Louisville (Kentucky), student teachers are asked to prepare portfolios, exactly as all secondary students must in the state of Kentucky, meaning that the…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Portfolios (Background Materials)
Peterson, Elaine; Lou, Wei Wei – 1991
In 1989 the Portland (Oregon) Public Schools conducted a Direct Writing Assessment of approximately 6,000 students. A voluntary portion included 103 ninth graders who wrote essays on the same topic. The papers were scored twice: once in each student's handwriting and once in word-processed form. Papers were separated into short and long categories…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Grade 9, Grading
Egelson, Pauline E. – 1995
This study examined the attitudes of elementary school teachers and students toward portfolio assessment. A total of 11 teachers and 116 students in grades 3 through 5 responded to open-ended questions regarding the benefits of portfolios for highlighting students' written work. Teachers were asked about the strengths and weaknesses of portfolio…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
Gumnior, Elisabeth C.; Richards, Eric L. – 1992
This paper demonstrates with specific examples from various students' journals how subtly and, at the same time, pervasively ethnocentricity expresses itself, and offers suggestions on how to assess and combat ethnocentric beliefs through writing assignments and classroom exercises in an international business law course at Indiana University. The…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Business Administration Education, Class Activities, Cultural Awareness
Winter, Janet K.; Winter, Esther J. – 1992
This paper addresses the many uses of the writing portfolio in general education at the college level, particularly in classrooms teaching business communication. It describes what elements could be contained within a portfolio, the role the portfolio can play in the assessment process, and the pedagogical implications of a class that is organized…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Business Communication, Cultural Awareness, Evaluation Methods
Scime, Anthony – 1998
Currently available World Wide Web search engines determine a site's qualification as a response to a search request by matching keywords in the request to keywords representing the site. The returned sites are given a score and ranked according to the match on keywords. Many of these retrieved sites can be irrelevant to the user's true…
Descriptors: Assignments, Course Content, Course Objectives, Database Design