{"title":"Assessment and Error Identification of Answers to Mathematical Word Problems","authors":"J. Kadupitiya, Surangika Ranathunga, G. Dias","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2017.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2017.48","url":null,"abstract":"Mathematical word problems can be broadly divided into two categories as numerical word problems and algebraic word problems. These can be further categorised according to the domain, such as interest calculation and mensuration. Although most of the popular Mathematics examinations contain word problems, there are slight differences in the syllabi. The existing research has produced solutions for some categories of the word type problems. However, these solutions cannot be used for other types of word problems nor can these systems be used in the context of other examinations where there are differences in the grading schemes. We introduce a system that can be easily used to assess answers to both numerical and algebraic type word problems and automatically identifies the exact errors (if any) made by students by using a (teacher provided) marking rubric. The system is modularized and can be extended to support different types of word problems. If the answer contains a short textual phrase along with the numerical or algebraic expression, it is also evaluated in order to check whether the student has actually understood the question.","PeriodicalId":134966,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131159663","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}
{"title":"Integrating GeoGebra with TPACK in Improving Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers’ Professional Development","authors":"K. Bhagat, Chun-Yen Chang, Ronghuai Huang","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2017.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2017.9","url":null,"abstract":"The relationship between the use of Geogebra and Technological Pedagogical Content and Knowledge (TPACK) by teachers has not been fully investigated and understood. Therefore, the aim of this study was to integrate GeoGebra technology to develop the TPACK of secondary school pre-service mathematics teachers. The participants of this study were 60 Indian teachers. Data were collected through the administration of pre-post TPACK surveys using a Google Online survey. Results from the survey revealed that there were changes in teachers' TPACK after undergoing the Geogebra workshop. Practical implications are discussed regarding how to enhance pre-service teachers' TPACK using GeoGebra in mathematics teaching.","PeriodicalId":134966,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123541796","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}
{"title":"Listening Strategy Applications by Learners under the Context of Multimodality","authors":"Chia-Ling Kao, Chia-Ying Liao, Y. Lan","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2017.71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2017.71","url":null,"abstract":"While listening comprehension is one of the foundations for effective communication, the teaching and learning of listening is usually limited to conventional methods. Fortunately, with the development of technology, particularly 3D virtual reality, such limits as time and space encountered in a conventional classroom can be overcome. This study recruited 27 beginners in Chinese and arranged these participants to take 4 listening comprehension tests, 2 tests with Second Life (SL) as the listening comprehension support and 2 tests with printed pictures. To examine how both types of support influence the adoption of listening strategies while taking Chinese listening comprehension tests, the researchers collected research data with questionnaires and interviews. Overall, more metacognitive strategies than cognitive strategies were adopted. This research has also identified the most and the least commonly used strategies with SL and printed pictures as the listening support.","PeriodicalId":134966,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)","volume":"1952 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129370255","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}
Roberto Martínez Maldonado, K. Yacef, Augusto Dias Pereira dos Santos, S. B. Shum, Vanessa Echeverría, O. Santos, Mykola Pechenizkiy
{"title":"Towards Proximity Tracking and Sensemaking for Supporting Teamwork and Learning","authors":"Roberto Martínez Maldonado, K. Yacef, Augusto Dias Pereira dos Santos, S. B. Shum, Vanessa Echeverría, O. Santos, Mykola Pechenizkiy","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2017.79","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2017.79","url":null,"abstract":"A large number of learning tools offering some sort of personalisation features rely mainly on the analysis of logged interactions between students and particular user interfaces. Much less attention has been given to the analysis of physical aspects so often present in 'traditional' intellectual tasks, although these are both important in the full development of a life-long learner. This paper (1) discusses existing literature focused on supporting learning using proximity and location analytics and sensors, and, based on this, (2) illustrates the feasibility and potential of these analytics for teaching and learning through an study in the context of proximity and location analytics in a team-based health simulation classroom.","PeriodicalId":134966,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124839244","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}
{"title":"Real-Time Learning Analytics of e-Book Operation Logs for On-site Lecture Support","authors":"Atsushi Shimada, Kousuke Mouri, H. Ogata","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2017.74","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2017.74","url":null,"abstract":"A real-time learning analytics system is proposed for in-classroom use. We used an e-learning system and an e-book system to collect real-time learning activities during lectures. The collected logs were analyzed and presented visually on a web-based system for the teacher. The teacher can monitor how many students are viewing the same page as the teacher, whether they are following the explanation, or if they are reading previous or subsequent pages. Through a case study, we confirmed the effectiveness of the real-time learning analytics system, in terms of high synchronization between the teacher and the students, i.e., that the majority of students followed the teacher's explanation and added more bookmarks, highlights, or notes on the e-book, compared with the control group where the teacher did not use our system.","PeriodicalId":134966,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121481663","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. Shadiev, B. Reynolds, Yueh-Min Huang, Narzikul Shadiev, Wei Wang, Laxmisha Rai, Wanwisa Wannapipat
{"title":"Applying Speech-to-Text Recognition and Computer-Aided Translation for Supporting Multi-lingual Communications in Cross-Cultural Learning Project","authors":"R. Shadiev, B. Reynolds, Yueh-Min Huang, Narzikul Shadiev, Wei Wang, Laxmisha Rai, Wanwisa Wannapipat","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2017.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2017.20","url":null,"abstract":"We applied a speech-to-text recognition (STR) and computer-aided translation (CAT) systems to support multi-lingual communications students participating in cross-cultural learning project. The participants were engaged in interactions and information exchanges in order to learn and understand cultures and traditions of their peers. Their communications were carried out in their native languages on social communication platforms. The participants spoke and STR system generated texts from their voice inputs. CAT system then simultaneously translated STR-texts into English. Finally, translated texts were posted on social communication platforms along with spoken content in the participants' native languages. We aimed to examine accuracy rates of processes associated with STR and CAT for different languages during multi-lingual communications in our cross-cultural learning project. In addition, the feasibility of our approach to support multi-lingual communications in cross-cultural learning project was investigated. Our results showed that the lowest accuracy rate was for Mongolian and Filipino and the highest was for Spanish, Russian, and French. Our results also demonstrated that cross-cultural learning took place, the participants understood and were able to explain foreign traditions to others as well as to compare foreign traditions with their own local. Based on our results, we made several suggestions and implications for the teaching and research community.","PeriodicalId":134966,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125556244","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}
{"title":"The Effects of Fusing 635 Brainstorming and C-Sketch Methods on the Creativity of Industrial Design","authors":"Chih-Chao Hsu, Tzone-I Wang, Ke-Jie Lin, Jia-Wei Chang","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2017.72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2017.72","url":null,"abstract":"Creativity, one of the important abilities of industrial designers, can help designing and realizing innovative products. Today industrial design requires group collaboration too. How to effectively stimulate group creativity is an important issue on promoting innovation on products. Both the 635 brainstorming method and the C-Sketch method realize team-based divergent thinking techniques. The former uses words while the latter uses pictures as a way to stimulate group creativity. This study fuses the 635 brainstorming method and the C-Sketch method in an attempt to help group designers, by alternatively passing pictures and words in the divergent thinking phase, stimulating and integrating their ideas from different aspects for developing innovative products. To evaluate the feasibility of this hybrid technique, this study conducts two experiments. The results in the first experiment, using the proposed method, the originality and elaboration of the group creativity are significantly better than using the 635 brainstorming method, but the fluency and flexibility are not. In the second experiment, using the proposed method, the originality and elaboration of the group creativity are significantly better than using the C-Sketch method, but the flexibility is not. The C-Sketch method performs significantly better, nevertheless, than the proposed method in the fluency of group creativity. The proposed method is significantly better than the 635 brainstorming method and the C-Sketch method in improving designers' creativity thinking. Nevertheless, the measurements on the performances on the final products yield no significant differences between the proposed method and the 635 brainstorming method or the C-Sketch method.","PeriodicalId":134966,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123772973","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}
D. Suehiro, Yuta Taniguchi, Atsushi Shimada, H. Ogata
{"title":"Face-to-Face Teaching Analytics: Extracting Teaching Activities from E-Book Logs via Time-Series Analysis","authors":"D. Suehiro, Yuta Taniguchi, Atsushi Shimada, H. Ogata","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2017.75","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2017.75","url":null,"abstract":"To discover teaching knowledge efficiently, we must extract the various teaching activities from educational data. In this paper, through the use of e-book logs and techniques of time-series analysis, we describe a method of practicing teaching analytics in face-to-face classes, one which enable us to extract the teaching activity efficiently and accurately.","PeriodicalId":134966,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132880821","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}
M. Yamada, Yoshiko Goda, T. Matsuda, Yutaka Saito, H. Kato, Hiroyuki Miyagawa
{"title":"Self-Regulator: Preliminary Research of the Effects of Supporting Time Management on Learning Behaviors","authors":"M. Yamada, Yoshiko Goda, T. Matsuda, Yutaka Saito, H. Kato, Hiroyuki Miyagawa","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2017.85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2017.85","url":null,"abstract":"This preliminary research investigates the effects of self-regulated learning support using the system \"Self-regulator (SR),\" and relationships between self-regulated learning awareness, learning behaviors, and perceived effects of SR. The results showed that the course with SR promoted \"meet the deadline\" awareness. The results of Spearman's correlation analysis revealed that procrastination awareness for high performance is one of the key factors for time management, which is an important factor of self-regulated learning.","PeriodicalId":134966,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129322570","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}
Yuta Taniguchi, D. Suehiro, Atsushi Shimada, H. Ogata
{"title":"Revealing Hidden Impression Topics in Students’ Journals Based on Nonnegative Matrix Factorization","authors":"Yuta Taniguchi, D. Suehiro, Atsushi Shimada, H. Ogata","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2017.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2017.113","url":null,"abstract":"Students' reflective writings are useful not only for students themselves but also teachers. It is important for teachers to know which concepts were understood well by students and which concepts were not, to continuously improve their classes. However, it is difficult for teachers to thoroughly read the journals of more than one hundred students. In this paper, we propose a novel method to extract common topics and students' common impressions against them from students' journals. Weekly keywords are discovered from journals by scoring noun words with a measure based on TF-IDF term weighting scheme, and then we analyze co-occurrence relationships between extracted keywords and adjectives. We employs nonnegative matrix factorization, one of the topic modeling techniques, to discover the hidden impression topics from the co-occurrence relationships. As a case study, we applied our method on students' journals of the course \"Information Science\" held in our university. Our experimental results show that conceptual keywords are successfully extracted, and four significant impression topics are identified. We conclude that our analysis method can be used to collectively understand the impressions of students from journal texts.","PeriodicalId":134966,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)","volume":"30 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132968915","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}