Modelling the Preferences of Students for Alternative Assignment Designs Using the Discrete Choice Experiment Methodology.

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Autor/Urheber	Brendan Kennelly; Darragh Flannery; John Considine; Edel Doherty; Stephen Hynes
Institution	Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation
Titel	Modelling the Preferences of Students for Alternative Assignment Designs Using the Discrete Choice Experiment Methodology.
Quelle	In: 1531-7714; Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, Vol 19, Iss 16, Pp 1-13 (2014)(2014) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Preferences; Assignments; Undergraduate Students; Business Administration Education; Tests; Student Evaluation; Evaluation Methods; Theory and practice of education
Abstract	This paper outlines how a discrete choice experiment (DCE) can be used to learn more about how students are willing to trade off various features of assignments such as the nature and timing of feedback and the method used to submit assignments. A DCE identifies plausible levels of the key attributes of a good or service and then presents the respondent with alternative bundles of these attributes and their levels and asks the respondent to choose between particular bundles. We report results from a DCE we conducted with undergraduate business students regarding their preferences for assignment systems. We find that the most important features of assignments are how relevant the assignments are for exam preparation and the nature of the feedback that students receive. We also find that students generally prefer online to paper assignments. We argue that the DCE approach has a lot of potential in education research.
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