T. Silva, F. H. L. Vasconcelos, A. L. F. Almeida, J. C. M. Mota
{"title":"Multivariate analysis for students' evaluation of teaching effectiveness in teleinformatics engineering","authors":"T. Silva, F. H. L. Vasconcelos, A. L. F. Almeida, J. C. M. Mota","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2012.6360316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2012.6360316","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we propose the use a multivariate analysis tool, called principal components analysis (PCA), to address the problem of Students' Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness (SETE). We conducted a research with Engineering Students in an undergraduate course. The values obtained after collecting research data were transformed from a 3D array to a 2D array performing an average of students' responses. The PCA was applied in order to take same intrinsic information of the dataset collected. The Cronbach's α validates the PCA application in the dataset. The results show that our study allows an analysis of how students perceive different disciplines about different criteria, which may serve as an indicator for an educational assessment area.","PeriodicalId":407302,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126820323","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}
Shoichi Nakamura, M. Murakami, H. Kaminaga, S. Yokoyama, Y. Miyadera
{"title":"A support system for cooperative software design exercise focusing on editing contexts and relationships among technical documents","authors":"Shoichi Nakamura, M. Murakami, H. Kaminaga, S. Yokoyama, Y. Miyadera","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2012.6360404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2012.6360404","url":null,"abstract":"Most skills and knowledge of cooperative software design can be obtained only through experiences. Especially, technical document writing and its polish involves the contexts such as author's editing intention, advices and questions. It is important but difficult for leaners to share such contexts. This research proposes a support system for drawing technical documents attaching greater importance to proper composition giving thought to the sharing the editing contexts and to relationships among the technical documents and their components. This paper mainly describes overview of a support system for cooperative editing of the technical documents and sharing editing contexts in its process.","PeriodicalId":407302,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131449924","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":"Using iPad 2 with note-taking apps to enhance traditional blackboard-style pedagogy for mathematics-heavy subjects: A case study","authors":"A. Lau, Siu-lau Ho","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2012.6360349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2012.6360349","url":null,"abstract":"We present the use of an iPad, a note-taking application (app), a stylus pen and standard classroom projector facilities to enable real-time display of the iPad screen and recreate/enhance traditional blackboard-style pedagogy. Specifically suitable for subjects with heavy mathematical derivations, we report our experience in applying such pedagogical approach to the course EE3131/EE3801: Telecommunication Fundamentals at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. We discuss on learning and teaching benefits for the students and the lecturer.","PeriodicalId":407302,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116634549","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 procedural approach to assessing undergraduate students' project","authors":"M. Shanmugavel, V. Ragavan","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2012.6360373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2012.6360373","url":null,"abstract":"A systematic procedure for evaluating undergraduate students' project is presented. A mechatronics project is a synergistic fusion of various disciplines to design and develop a system and a set of specific requirements have to be established for each project component and the students' achievements are evaluated against these requirements. The project is assessed and evaluated in an industry-like scenario. During the project span of 12 weeks, the third-year Mechatronics students are assessed for the following skills: proposal writing, project management, technical document writing, presentation, group management, risk assessment and use of Gantt chart to track the project. The proposed procedure was tested on two batches of student cohorts and to two competitive projects, and found successful.","PeriodicalId":407302,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130241211","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":"Item response prediction for incomplete response matrix using the EM-type item response theory with application to adaptive online ability evaluation system","authors":"Hideo Hirose, T. Sakumura","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2012.6360365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2012.6360365","url":null,"abstract":"The item response theory (IRT) gives us the valuable information about the difficulties of problems as well as the abilities of students, whereas the classical test method provides only the abilities of students with pre-determined scores to each problem. To enhance the use of the IRT, we have developed a concise IRT evaluation Web system via the drag-and-drop Excel file in which 0/1 scores of the test result are stored. In addition, we have introduced an online adaptive IRT system to assess the students' abilities more accurately with fewer problems. In such a system, the item bank is pre-stored and the problem difficulties are determined in advance. However, as the number of online adaptive examinees becomes large, the calibration for parameters to problems, incorporating the new examinees' results for problem difficulties, may be needed. For the calibration, parameter estimation methods of problem difficulties and students' abilities for incomplete response matrices are required. In this paper, we propose a new method to estimate the problem difficulties and students' abilities for incomplete item response matrices via the LIRT, which is based on the item response theory and the EM-type algorithm. Then, we show a calibration procedure expressing the problem difficulties and students' abilities to some online adaptive system. We have found the estimates for discrimination parameters vary to some extent from the beginning to the end. However, the estimates for the difficulty parameters do not vary much, which corresponds to that the estimates for the ability parameters do not vary much.","PeriodicalId":407302,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130681276","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":"Research-based learning in computing courses for senior engineering students","authors":"K. Shaban, M. Abdulwahed","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2012.6360355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2012.6360355","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on the experience and lessons learned from introducing a constructivist inquiry-based learning (IBL) in advanced computing courses. The paper describes an iterative problem-centric process and gives details on its activities, procedures, assessment methods, and related management aspects. Research-based projects are one of the IBL practices that are particularly suitable for higher education. Research-based IBL has been conducted in two different higher education contexts; at the University of Waterloo and at Qatar University. Measurement data provides information relative to the strengths and weaknesses of the adopted methodology in satisfying the pedagogical objectives being addressed in the paper.","PeriodicalId":407302,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134255413","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":"Interactive learning in pre-university mathematics","authors":"Flora S. Tsai, C. Yuen, Ngai-Man Cheung","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2012.6360393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2012.6360393","url":null,"abstract":"With the proliferation of new technologies such as social media, microblogs, online references, multimedia, and interactive teaching tools, the learning environment has changed drastically in the past several years. However, some- times too many aids may detract from the learning outcomes and performance. This paper summarizes research on the effect of interactive tools on student learning, and describes our experiences teaching mathematics for pre-university students in a new design-centric university established in collaboration with MIT. We have adopted a unique classroom setting with different pedagogical techniques, and described the educational impact of student learning preferences and interactive learning tools. The impact of this study can provide guidelines on how interactive learning can be integrated in small classes.","PeriodicalId":407302,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115469149","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 the Kinect camera, gesture recognition and mobile devices for interactive discussion","authors":"V. Tam, Lingxin Li","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2012.6360362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2012.6360362","url":null,"abstract":"The Microsoft Kinect camera is a revolutionary and useful depth camera giving new user experience of interactive gaming on the Xbox platform through gesture or motion detection. Besides the infrared-based depth camera, an array of built-in microphones for voice command is installed along the horizontal bar of the Kinect camera. As a result, there are increasing interests to apply the Kinect camera for various real-life applications including the control of squirt guns for outdoor swimming pools. In additional to the Kinect camera, mobile devices such as the smartphones readily integrated with motion sensors have been used for different real-time control tasks like the remote control of robots. In this project, we propose to integrate the Microsoft Kinect camera together with the smartphones as intelligent control for interactive discussion or presentation for the future e-learning system. To demonstrate the feasibility of our proposal, a prototype of our proposed gesture recognition and command specification software is built using the C# language on the MS .NET platform, and will be evaluated with a careful plan. Furthermore, there are many interesting directions for further investigation of our proposal.","PeriodicalId":407302,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123013808","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}
Yongming Tang, Xiaoyan Song, Guoliang Du, Xiaojian Zhang, Wei Lei
{"title":"Development of a self-management mode for an undergraduate student innovation lab","authors":"Yongming Tang, Xiaoyan Song, Guoliang Du, Xiaojian Zhang, Wei Lei","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2012.6360357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2012.6360357","url":null,"abstract":"The previous low utilization of the undergraduate student innovation lab led to a new management mode being adopted by the School of Electronic Science and Engineering of Southeast University. By transferring the administrative work of the innovation lab to undergraduate students themselves, including budgeting and annual planning, they are encouraged to think about what they want and what they can do. The student organization that runs the lab has grown quickly and has been effective at improving the facilities of the lab and engaging more students to use this resource to develop practical skills.","PeriodicalId":407302,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012","volume":"231 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131564138","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":"Reform and practice of the electronic circuit experiment teaching mode for the purpose of strengthening the electronic system design ability","authors":"Huichun Huang, Guoliang Du, Renjie Hu","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2012.6360296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2012.6360296","url":null,"abstract":"An analog circuit laboratory course was reformed at Southeast University with the goal of strengthening students' electronic system design ability. Compared to the traditional Chinese laboratory course, this course design included the innovative aspects of combining individual circuits with systems, theory with practice, simulation with implementation, basic with advanced requirements, individual work with teamwork, and included a more comprehensive assessment. This course also aimed to develop the innovative capacity and engineering practice ability of students. Honors students who took this laboratory course believed that it stimulated their interest and motivation to learn and helped them appreciate the spirit of teamwork.","PeriodicalId":407302,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116661743","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}