{"title":"Real-Time Automated Answer Scoring","authors":"Akash Nagaraj, Mukund Sood, G. Srinivasa","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2018.00122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2018.00122","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the role of big data analytics has exponentially grown and is now slowly making its way into the education industry. Several attempts are being made in this sphere in order to improve the quality of education being provided to students and while many collaborations have been carried out before, automated scoring of answers has been explored to a rather limited extent. One of the biggest hurdles to choosing constructed-response assessments over multiple-choice assessments is the effort and large cost that comes with their evaluation and this is precisely the issue that this project aims to solve. The aim is to accept raw-input from the student in the form of their answer, preprocess the answer, and automatically score the answer. In addition, we have made this a real-time system that captures \"snapshots\" of the writer's progress with respect to the answer, allowing us to unearth trends with respect to the way a student thinks, and how the student has arrived at their final answer.","PeriodicalId":361110,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 18th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)","volume":"337 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133925885","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":"Semantic Web Technology as a Tool for Integrating Training and Job Market Supply Chains","authors":"O. Malandrino, M. Sessa","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2018.00088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2018.00088","url":null,"abstract":"For some time now, the training and valorisation of human capital has served as a fulcrum in the strategies of the European Union, in light of its key role in the knowledge economy. Nowadays, the term competence refers to the accumulated outcomes of a variety of learning paths undertaken throughout people's lives. This paper presents a 'traceability' system which uses the ontologies in order to assist universities in the mid-to-long term mapping of the competences acquired by its human capital and to verify that the latter is correctly placed in the job market.","PeriodicalId":361110,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 18th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133027256","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":"Story Templates - Serious Storytelling to Support Learning","authors":"H. Hlavacs, A. Moser","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2018.00101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2018.00101","url":null,"abstract":"School students are increasingly distracted by modern technology, leading to decreasing skills in reading and writing. This paper presents the E-learning-tool \"Story Templates\", which enables teachers to include stories into the daily homework assignments. The basic idea is to insert learning content meaningful into exciting stories, coming from a large database of stories. Each story has its predefined breaks, where different templates or rather tasks can be inserted, for example an arithmetic problem. Teachers can choose between various ways of grading the homework results, including multiple choice, text based etc. The tool also contains an app that students can use on their smartphones or tablets to read the stories and provide answers. The goal of this work is to make learning more fun again, by using modern technology.","PeriodicalId":361110,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 18th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134633490","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":"A Bibliometric Analysis of Six Years of Research on Flipped Classroom","authors":"K. Bhagat, J. Spector","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2018.00013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2018.00013","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyzed research trends in flipped classroom research using a bibliometric analysis approach. A total of 254 related publications were extracted from Web of Science Core Collection based on their publication patterns (e.g., document type, language, country, etc.) during the period 2012-2017. The results show the exponential growth of research studies related to flipped classroom from 2012 through 2017. The analysis indicated that the Journal of Chemical Education was the most productive journal in terms of number of flipped classroom publications and that the USA as the top country. This study will help researchers, educators, and policy makers identify trends and issues that can guide future work involving flipped classrooms.","PeriodicalId":361110,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 18th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129862313","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}
Vijayalakshmi M, M. S. Patil, Aruna S. Nayak, Vidya S. Handur, G.S. Hanchinamani
{"title":"Enhancing Students Learning Skills Through Integrated Course Project Design Model (ICPDM)","authors":"Vijayalakshmi M, M. S. Patil, Aruna S. Nayak, Vidya S. Handur, G.S. Hanchinamani","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2018.00014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2018.00014","url":null,"abstract":"The perpetually changing technology and global market needs have necessitated imparting lifelong learning skills to students through technical education. For the undergraduate engineering students to become acceptable by industry, their critical thinking and problem solving ability, design and analysis capability, interpersonal and communication skills need to be honed. Through integrated curriculum, the students can pursue learning in a holistic way thus avoiding restrictions imposed by course boundaries and it helps develop positive attitudes for continued successful learning throughout their undergraduate study. An integrated curriculum fosters learning experiences that are designed to be mutually reinforcing and synthesized across traditional subject areas. This calls for certain curriculum reforms and here the authors have proposed integrated course project design model (ICPDM). This paper presents a model ICPDM for integrated course design, which is used for implementation of Integrated Course Project (ICP).","PeriodicalId":361110,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 18th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)","volume":"178 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128359484","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":"Modeling Behavioral Dynamics in Confidence-Based Assessment","authors":"R. Maqsood, P. Ceravolo","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2018.00112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2018.00112","url":null,"abstract":"Confidence-based assessment is a two-dimensional assessment paradigm which considers confidence or expectancy level a student has about the answer, to ascertain his/her actual knowledge. Several researchers have discussed the usefulness of this model over traditional one-dimensional assessment approach, which takes number of correctly answered questions as a sole parameter to calculate the test scores of a student. However, very little is investigated about students' behavior in relation to different confidence-outcome knowledge regions. This Ph.D. research work aims to analyze and construct behavioral profiles of the students by focusing on their confidence level, performance, and navigation in a computer-based assessment system. The final goal is to provide a framework for an adaptive confidence-based assessment system which may be exploited to provide personalized feedback to improve students' confidence accuracy and knowledge by considering their behavioral dynamics.","PeriodicalId":361110,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 18th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128696668","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}
N. Akshay, Nidhin Sugunan, Anirudh Muraleedharan, N. Amritha, P. Aswathi, R. R. Bhavani
{"title":"Design, Observe and Tinker: A Constructionist Approach to Introduce Maker Skills in Rural Schools","authors":"N. Akshay, Nidhin Sugunan, Anirudh Muraleedharan, N. Amritha, P. Aswathi, R. R. Bhavani","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2018.00074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2018.00074","url":null,"abstract":"The thrust in schools to impart 21st century skills in recent years has created a paradigm shift in education in many countries. This suggests a shift in the notion of literacy to include various frameworks of thinking skills that aim to develop higher order cognition in children. This paper describes our experience conducting maker workshops in rural schools in India that aim to impart such thinking skills through activities such as tinkering, virtual prototyping, and comprehending design and user interaction. The paper further discusses the lessons learnt through observing rural children to understand their preferences, challenges and their ingenuity when using such tools and technologies that facilitate thinking and learning.","PeriodicalId":361110,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 18th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128759800","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":"Object Recognition Based on Representative Score Features","authors":"Anu Singha, M. Bhowmik","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2018.00106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2018.00106","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present an approach towards object detection and recognition from various environmental conditions such as foggy morning, dust scenarios, and night vision. The goal of the approach is to develop a holistic feature extraction method over object image patch. To categorize objects, the experimental evaluation has prepared through four classifiers. Investigational results with our own collected video sequences are reported to demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":361110,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 18th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116629855","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":"Gaze as a Proxy for Cognition and Communication","authors":"Patrick Jermann, K. Sharma","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2018.00043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2018.00043","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the potential of gaze as a predictor for the quality of dialogue and the level of understanding in collaborative problem-solving. We unveil a triangular relation among collaborators' dialogue, their gaze pattern, and their performance in the context of a pair programming task. Pairs of participants were asked to understand a JAVA program while their gaze was synchronously recorded. The performance was measured as the level of understanding attained by the pair at the end of the program comprehension task. Gaze patterns were analyzed based on probabilistic hit based areas of interest called gaze tokens. A novel dialogue coding scheme was developed to capture the program description as well as collaboration management aspect of pair program understanding. Both the areas of interest and the dialogue codes reflect top-down and bottom-up program comprehension strategies. Results show that it is possible to relate gaze to the level of abstraction in dialogue and to the level of understanding.","PeriodicalId":361110,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 18th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134619251","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}