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Cleynen, Olivier; Santa-Maria, Germán; Magdowski, Mathias; Thévenin, Dominique – Research in Learning Technology, 2020
This article reports on the implementation of a programme of individualised, peer-graded homework assignments in a large-scale engineering course, with minimal resources. Participation in the programme allows students to receive grades for problem-solving work in a setting more conducive to learning than the traditional final examination. The…
Descriptors: Homework, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Peer Evaluation
Decker, Mary Giselle; Kleppinger, Kelley; Pewitt, Andrea – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of standards-based grading (SBG) on student achievement at Lipscomb Academy, a private, faith-based school in Middle Tennessee. In this mixed-methods study the researchers utilized test score data from middle school math and language arts midterms, AP Psychology Exam scores, digital…
Descriptors: Grading, Private Schools, Religious Education, Middle School Students
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Burriss, Kathleen G.; Snead, Donald – School Community Journal, 2017
The purpose of this study was to understand students' perspectives on the role of homework. Middle school students (N = 506) volunteered to complete open-ended surveys describing their perceptions regarding the effectiveness of homework. Qualitative analysis revealed that students identified several instructional and noninstructional reasons for…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Motivation, Program Effectiveness, Homework
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Hack, Catherine Jane – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Using the delivery of a large postgraduate distance learning module in bioethics to health professionals as an illustrative example, the type of learning activity that could be enhanced through delivery in an immersive virtual world (IVW) was explored. Several activities were repurposed from the "traditional" virtual learning environment…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Graduate Study, Distance Education
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Roth, Vicki; Ivanchenko, Volodymyr; Record, Nicholas – Computers & Education, 2008
As the use of web-based homework delivery and checking systems expands, we have greater need to evaluate how students engage with these systems and how changes in the systems influence student behavior. Reported here is the assessment of WeBWorK, an open-source web-based homework program used largely in postsecondary math and science courses, with…
Descriptors: Calculus, Error Correction, Homework, Student Reaction
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis