Mirjana Ivanović, Zoran Budimac Aleksandra Klašnja-Milićević, Boban Vesin,

University of Novi Sad, Faculty of SciencesNovi Sad, Serbia

Possibilities to Improve Web-based Assessment in Programming Courses

AGENDA

Introduction

Educational systems and TEL for improving students assessment

Personalization as a way of improving students’ testing and assessments

Integrated learning system for better assessment

Pedagogical Agents as instruments for increasing assessment quality

Conclusion

Introduction E-learning - fastest growing form of education in the last

decade

Diversity of requirements for commercial learning environments – no a single monolithic system

Multifunctional systems are needed- content production - mechanisms for students’ communication and collaboration- high quality student modeling

Department of Mathematics and Informatics- Moodle- Integrated in-house tools

MILE - on-line courses, testing, automated feedback

AGENDA

Introduction

Educational systems and TEL for improving students assessment

Personalization as a way of improving students’ testing and assessments

Integrated learning system for better assessment

Pedagogical Agents as instruments for increasing assessment quality

Conclusion

Educational systems and TEL for improving students assessment

Support for several programming courses – extensive practical tasks

Various aspects of Technology Enhanced Learning are utilized:

- Learning Management Systems and Tutoring Systems

• LMS Moodle,

• MILE – learning, testing acquired knowledge, assessments programming practical tasks

Educational systems and TEL for improving students assessment

- Programming Environments and Assessment Tools

• BlueJ, Eclipse, Jeliot• Svetovid – prevent cheating, make easier

assessment of students’ practical solutions

- Communication and Cooperation• Moodle • Chat sessions, discussion forums, instant messages,

e-mail• Wikis for team work on SE projects

AGENDA

Introduction

Educational systems and TEL for improving students assessment

Personalization as a way of improving students’ testing and assessments

Integrated learning system for better assessment

Pedagogical Agents as instruments for increasing assessment quality

Conclusion

Personalization as a way of improving students’ testing and assessments

Internet research and survey methodology - promising area- offers powerful advantages over traditional modes

of survey, questionnaire and assessment.

Testing of learner’s knowledge - demanding functionality of the e-learning systems

Our motivation: support of assignments of students’ programming solutions

Personalization as a way of improving students’ testing and assessments

MILE – general architecture- Multifunctional integrated learning environment - Learning styles recognition and content

recommendation (Felder-Silverman Learning Styles Model)

- Tests with numerous multiple-choice questions, code completion tasks

First practically used/tested version- Increasing assessment and testing functionalities for

Java programming course- More accurate learner modelling

AGENDA

Introduction

Educational systems and TEL for improving students assessment

Personalization as a way of improving students’ testing and assessments

Integrated learning system for better assessment

Pedagogical Agents as instruments for increasing assessment quality

Conclusion

Integrated learning system for better assessment

The goal is to improve assessment of the learners in computer labs or over a network/internet

Testovid system - instructor has great flexibility in specifying how and what is to be tested (in programs)

Integrated version of MILE with Testovid brings new functionalities- do on-line programming- self-assessment programming tasks during course and

final assessment of gained programming skills- submission of programs/solutions and receiving

automated feedback and errors report- final exams via Internet or in computer laboratory

Integrated learning system for better assessment Integration of the Assessment module in MILE

AGENDA

Introduction

Educational systems and TEL for improving students assessment

Personalization as a way of improving students’ testing and assessments

Integrated learning system for better assessment

Pedagogical Agents as instruments for increasing assessment quality

Conclusion

Pedagogical Agents as instruments for increasing assessment quality

Instruments for increasing learning and assessment quality, motivation

Web-based educational systems employ different recommendations and scaffolding techniques- pedagogical agents (Provoking and Zestful)- guide interactively learners through the learning

process

Hints for solutions are prepared according to role of agents- Zestful agent - includes useful hints to guide student - Provoking agent - includes somehow wrong /misleading

hints to confuse student, make them more concentrated

Pedagogical Agents as instruments for increasing assessment quality MILE system with two kinds of agents (Provoking and Zestful )

Pedagogical Agents as instruments for increasing assessment quality

AGENDA

Introduction

Educational systems and TEL for improving students assessment

Personalization as a way of improving students’ testing and assessments

Integrated learning system for better assessment

Pedagogical Agents as instruments for increasing assessment quality

Conclusion

Conclusion

Faculty of Sciences, Department of Mathematics and Informatics

Different web-based tools for:- e-learning- e-testing- e-assessment

LMS Moodle has been using predominantly for testing students’ theoretical knowledge combining in questionnaires different types of questions.

For practical students’ program solutions: - TEL tools and facilities- MILE - Multifunctional integrated learning environment

Mirjana Ivanović, Zoran Budimac Aleksandra Klašnja-Milićević, Boban Vesin,

University of Novi Sad, Faculty of SciencesNovi Sad, Serbia

Possibilities to Improve Web-based Assessment in Programming Courses