Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: This research uses state-of-the-art methodologies to improve in-classroom learning and post-classroom computer-based review and instruction.In particular, it brings into focus the issue of matching teacher's goals and course objectives with students' learning and expectations through a framework, called Classroom and Student Achievement Assessment Framework (CaSA).Too often, connections between program objectives, instruction and student learning are based upon supposition, made in retrospect with vague recollection of the events.Institutions and instructors need information about student behavior that is both timely and timed in order to identify activities that reflect student learning and understanding, gain a better understanding of when student learning occurs and optimize institutional and instructor-based efforts that promote student learning.An artifact of this research, CaSA is an internet-based, client-server system that will augment the classroom session by allowing the students to annotate instructional streams for personalized review, take notes, and provide real-time feedback to the instructor via a networked computer.The system collects student and instructor activities into a timed sequence both in the classroom and when students review class instructional streams.By unobtrusively recording these activities as timed, synchronized events, CaSA creates a data trail that links final outcomes to specific student and instructor activities.This rich collection of activity data can be mined to gain a better understanding of when and how learning occurs and what can be done to improve it.This research demonstrates an automated, internet-based, activity collection framework that will capture student classroom activity, sequence this activity into event trails, associate these trails to learning units and connect these events to learning outcome assessment.My first and most important thanks must go to my wife, Diane Sutherland Luczaj.Your support and understanding never wavered.I love you.I must also thank my children, Alexander Thomas Luczaj and Matthew Cameron Luczaj, for their patience.They learned what a dissertation was before they were three and learned that a gentle reminder from them effectively put me back on task.I love you both, too, three, four… Thank you to my parents, Sharon Ann and Jerome Michael Luczaj, for instilling me with confidence by listening to me in earnest throughout my life.Special thanks goes to Avanell Sutherland, my mother-in-
Authors: Jerome Eric Luczaj, Chia-Yung Han
Institution: University of Cincinnati
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Science Applications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1834014915