An Innovative Approach for Assisting Teachers in Improving Instructional Strategies via Analyzing Historical Assessment Data of Students

Autor/inn/en	Cheng, Li-Chen; Chu, Hui-Chun; Shiue, Bang-Min
Titel	An Innovative Approach for Assisting Teachers in Improving Instructional Strategies via Analyzing Historical Assessment Data of Students
Quelle	In: International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 13 (2015) 4, S.40-61 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-3100
DOI	10.4018/IJDET.2015100103
Schlagwörter	Teaching Methods; Learning Problems; Innovation; Student Records; Student Evaluation; Educational Assessment; College Students; Computer Science Education; Student Needs; Instructional Materials; Foreign Countries; Data Collection; Data Analysis; Classification; Concept Mapping; Concept Formation; Scores; Academic Achievement; Needs Assessment; Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Lernproblem; Schülerakte; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Collegestudent; Computer science lessons; Informatikunterricht; Lehrmaterial; Lehrmittel; Unterrichtsmedien; Ausland; Data capture; Datensammlung; Auswertung; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Concept Map; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Schulleistung; Bedarfsermittlung
Abstract	Identifying learning problems of students has been recognized as an important issue for assisting teachers in improving their instructional skills or learning design strategies. The accumulated assessment data provide an excellent resource for achieving this objective. However, most of conventional testing systems only record students' test results, which are not helpful to teachers in realizing students' learning problems without further assistance. To cope with this problem, in this study, an innovative approach that combines a student concept model and the change mining mechanism is proposed to analyze the learning problems of students from their historical assessment data. The teachers received the analysis results and then used those suggestions to improve their instructional strategies. To evaluate the performance of the proposed approach, a web-based learning assessment system has been developed and an experiment has been conducted on an "Introduction to Computers" course in a university. The experimental results showed that, those analysis results provided by the innovative approach were helpful to the teachers in providing appropriate instructional assistance and remedial learning materials for improving the learning achievements of the students. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01