{"title":"Impact of Learning Style based Teaching on Students Performance in a Formal Methods Course for Computer Scientists","authors":"R. Schorr","doi":"10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00145","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching a formal methods course can be challenging. Students perceive formal methods as difficult, too mathematical and practical irrelevant. Students show low motivation for the subject, they just want to pass the course with minimal effort. Grades in mandatory formal methods courses are typically below average. In order to address the problems, we analyzed the learning styles of our students. In this work-inprogress paper, we present the changes made to our teaching framework and their impact on student performance. This paper is an experience report on improving performance of master students in formal methods at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences.","PeriodicalId":369501,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126061359","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 Role of Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction in Primary Student’s Computational Thinking Development","authors":"Stella Xin Yin","doi":"10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00147","url":null,"abstract":"Large extant studies highlighted the importance of motivation in promoting students’ CT skills. However, few of them focused on basic psychological needs satisfaction (BPNS) and behavioral engagement. Since needs satisfaction could influence intrinsic motivation and lead to better performance. It is critical to understand whether, and to what extent, the learners’ CT skills are influenced by the level of BPNS. In light of this, the work-in-progress study employed a semester-long intervention to explore the role of BPNS in students’ CT skill development. A total of 600 primary students participated in this study. The findings of this study will contribute to a better understanding of primary students’ motivation in programming learning.","PeriodicalId":369501,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127175264","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":"Instructional Design Assistant Mentorship Scheme for Innovations on Virtual Instruction","authors":"Xinyi Liang, Chi-Un Lei","doi":"10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00078","url":null,"abstract":"Instructional design (ID) as a new profession is now showing its significant role in higher education, especially in a need of emergency remote teaching under the COVID-19 pandemic. However, only scattered studies regarding ID talent cultivation in higher education can be witnessed. In this paper, we introduced a professional development mechanism, the instructional design assistant mentorship scheme, showing how mentorship functioned well in cultivating ID talents to support the university-wide virtual instructions and guarantee the university teaching quality.","PeriodicalId":369501,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128792765","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}
Kim-hung Lam, Wai Ki Vicky Chan, Long-yung Ivan Chung, Wai-chun Boris Leung, Kwong-chak Gary Cheung, Yoon-suk Lawrence Lee, Wing-yiu Yu
{"title":"The use of interactive whiteboard drawing and concept/mind mapping to promote active learning in online/hybrid classes – a case study for science education","authors":"Kim-hung Lam, Wai Ki Vicky Chan, Long-yung Ivan Chung, Wai-chun Boris Leung, Kwong-chak Gary Cheung, Yoon-suk Lawrence Lee, Wing-yiu Yu","doi":"10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00110","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the conventional mode of class delivery. With the need to maintain social distancing and strict quarantine measures for local and non-local students, all teaching activities must be conducted in online mode, which in turn limited the interaction among students and instructors. In this study, we reported the use of interactive whiteboard on facilitating teaching and learning activities via drawing and handwriting during 2021/2022 Semester 1,2 and 3 (9/2021 to 6/2022). In general, nonprogramme major (NPM) students (ABCT1D09 and ABCT1D10) were satisfied with the use of interactive whiteboard with average score over 4.0, where more than 80% of them chose 4 and 5. For programme-major (PM) students (ABCT1742, ABCT3623 and ABCT4752), they were mostly satisfied with the use of interactive whiteboard with average score over 3.3, where more than 57% of them chose 4 and 5. To conclude, both NPM and PM students were satisfied with the use of interactive whiteboard during learning with overall average score around 4.0, where greater than 74% of them chose 4 and 5.","PeriodicalId":369501,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"255 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114256197","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":"Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Female-friendly Learning Design on Enhancing Grade 1 and 2 Girls’ Motivation in STEM education","authors":"Rebecca Rosemary Self, A. Tse","doi":"10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00097","url":null,"abstract":"Stereotypes towards girls in STEM education begin to affect students from as early as 6 years of age, which has led to a lowering of girls’ interest in STEM. In addition, the underrepresentation of females within STEM careers has eventuated in a lack of female role models for girls. Thus androcentrism surrounding STEM education and careers has ensued in learning design subject to masculine ways of learning. This study introduces a contemporary approach to the production of STEM learning design, fashioned upon a need for female-friendly learning. This study explores the extent to which grade 1 and 2 girls’ application of female-friendly STEM learning design influences their motivation in STEM. 60 grade 1 and 2 girls were selected to take part in this study. Applying the Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate (ADDIE) model of instructional design, this study considers the features of connected learning theory in the design, development and evaluation of female-friendly learning design.","PeriodicalId":369501,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127643666","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}
Feiya Xiang, Xinzhi Zhang, Jiali Cui, Morgan Carlin, Yang Song
{"title":"Algorithmic Bias in a Student Success Prediction Models: Two Case Studies","authors":"Feiya Xiang, Xinzhi Zhang, Jiali Cui, Morgan Carlin, Yang Song","doi":"10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00058","url":null,"abstract":"Machine learning algorithms are increasingly being used in today’s society. However, growth in these algorithms means growth in algorithmic bias, and it is imperative that we work to understand the bias that may result. One area of study in which these algorithms are widely used is in educational institutions. The algorithms are often used to predict student success or retention. In our research, we aim to uncover the biases that may result from building and using a machine learning student success models. To do so, we used two publicly available student datasets from educational settings (one from a MOOC and another one from secondary education in Portugal) and built models of our own. We then compared the accuracy and the fairness of each model type to observe which models performed best on each subcategory of students. Among the models we built, we found that while it is easy to use accuracy to evaluate models and find the most accurate ones, the most accurate predictive model overall for a dataset may not perform fairly in predicting student success for all subcategories of students. To better tune models for fairness, we found that it is possible to tune models that also take fairness into consideration, and these models could perform more fairly on almost all subcategories of students, but it slightly took away from the accuracy of the algorithm. Our results demonstrate the importance of creating and tuning several model types in order to choose a balanced model that balances accuracy and fairness.","PeriodicalId":369501,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129258007","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":"Graduate Attribute Assessment for Each Student of Remote Sensing Science and Technology Program","authors":"Y. Zhang, Yan Gong, W. Cui","doi":"10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00081","url":null,"abstract":"Taking the program of remote sensing science and technology as example, this paper calculated the degree of achievement of the 12 graduate attributes (GAs) adopted by Washington Accord for each student using the direct assessment method based on supporting courses’ grades. To make full use of the elective science courses and elective engineering program courses the course combos were adopted as supporting courses linking the GAs to the learning activities. The achievement scores of 12 GAs for 614 students of 2019-2021 were calculated. The results show that on average the 12 scores are all above 0.8. There is a small and steady improvement of the overall achievement scores except for GA6 Engineer and society of the past 3 years. The attributes with high scores are attribute 7 Environment and sustainability, 5 Modern tool usage. However, the low scores are from some soft competency requirement such as 10 Communication, 12 Life-long learning, and 11 Project management, which are the relatively deficient parts in the program of remote sensing science and technology. Comparison of the distribution in different achievement score ranges indicates that the students numbers of a score above 0.89 has increased, from 20% to 22% in 2020 and to 32% in 2021.","PeriodicalId":369501,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127977238","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":"Work-in-Progress: Virtual Reality Trainer for Vector Network Analyzer Calibration","authors":"I. Rumyancev, Margarita O. Aivazova, D. Akhmetov","doi":"10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00119","url":null,"abstract":"Virtual reality technology improves students’ experience with laboratory equipment in the case of blended and distance education. Vector networks analyzers are widely used to measure parameters of radio frequency integrated circuits and modules. Vector network analyzers must be calibrated before measurements to eliminate systematic errors. This work-in-progress paper presents a virtual reality trainer for one or two port measurement calibration of a vector network analyzer. The developed application was tested with Oculus Quest 2 headset.","PeriodicalId":369501,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132506202","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":"Digital Narratives: Alternative Object-based Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Sayuri Tanabashi","doi":"10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00130","url":null,"abstract":"Conventionally, object-based learning has been employed as a specific learning approach that involves object handling within museum settings. The possible efficacy of object-based learning, wherein in-person learning is combined with online learning, is affirmed here, as hybrid/online learning is often required during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this work-in-progress paper, the author demonstrates whether object-based learning that combines in-person learning with online learning can enhance learners’ understanding for learning contents. It is found the importance to identify how to combine several learning methods with reference to different learning purposes, environment, and circumstances.","PeriodicalId":369501,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133156830","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}
Chien-Hong Lee, M. Low, Benjamin Tze Chin Soon, LiMing Lu, H. Lee, Nadya Shaznay Patel
{"title":"Development of a Chatbot to Train Physiotherapy Students in Clinical Questioning and Reasoning","authors":"Chien-Hong Lee, M. Low, Benjamin Tze Chin Soon, LiMing Lu, H. Lee, Nadya Shaznay Patel","doi":"10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00084","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the development of a chatbot to train physiotherapy students in clinical questioning and reasoning. The features in this tool consist of semi-scripted practice conversations between a physiotherapist and virtual patient to determine a clinical diagnosis on a given scenario, automated scoring and feedback on their performance, and instructor tracking of students’ progress. Challenges and lessons learned in developing this chatbot are discussed. Experimental evaluation on whether the use of the chatbot improves students’ self-efficacy in clinical questioning and reasoning is ongoing.","PeriodicalId":369501,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131895662","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}