In this report, we describe assessment efforts in the MIS curriculum at a major Midwestern U.S. university. We discuss both direct and indirect assessment measures that may either be used as complements or on a stand-alone basis. Because direct assessment efforts are usually more time consuming and work-intensive, it would be helpful for ongoing program assessment if indirect assessment could b...

Online courses have been widely used to support teaching and learning in higher education. It is essential to develop methods to properly assess students in online course usages. This paper proposes a student participation index for assessing students in online courses. The index consists of a number of components, such as pages viewed and forum questions read and posted, and associated weights...

Inspectable Bayesian student models have been used to support student reflection, knowledge awareness and communication among teacher, students and parents. This paper presents a new approach to interacting with inspectable Bayesian student models called indirectly visible Bayesian student models. In this approach, the student model is seen through the eyes of a pedagogical agent (e.g., a virtu...

Assessing student work on realistic, openended problems is challenging when multiple solutions of varying quality can be expected. A balance needs to be sought between school-like and engineering-practice-like feedback and assessment of student work if an instructor wishes to capitalize on the authenticity of a problem. This workshop will work with the ideas of authentic assessment for open-end...

The acquisition of procedural skills requires learning by doing. Ideally, a student would receive real-time assessment and feedback as he attempts practice problems designed to exercise the targeted skills. This paper describes an automated assessment and feedback capability that has been applied to training for a complex software system in widespread use throughout the U.S. Army. The automated...

The use of technology for instruction, and the enormous amount of information available for consumption, places a considerable burden on instructors who must learn to integrate appropriate student practices and learning assessment. The Pedagogical Workflows project is developing a novel workflow environment that supports efficient assessment of student learning through interactive generation an...

Introduction. We explore the use of a psychometric model for locally-relevant, information literacy assessment, using an online tool for standardised assessment of student learning during discipline-based library instruction sessions. Method. A quantitative approach to data collection and analysis was used, employing standardised multiplechoice survey questions followed by individual, cognitive...