Title :
Supporting the Assessment of Collaborative Design Activities in Multi-tabletop Classrooms
Author :
Roger X. Granda; Echeverría;Katherine Chiluiza; Wong-Villacrés
Author_Institution :
Inf. Technol. Center, Escuela Super. Politec. del Litoral, Guayaquil, Ecuador
fDate :
7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The present study describes a proposed multitable top system for supporting collaborative database design activities in the classroom. Additionally, two experiments were conducted to evaluate students´ and teachers´ perceptions of the proposed system potential on aspects of group work assessment such as: ease of grading individuals as well as groups, equality of students´ participation, and, capability to accurately reflect individual contributions. Ten educators and 22 students from a Computer Science program participated in the experiments. The findings of this work show that the use of the proposed system impacted positively on the educators´ perception about the ease of grading individuals and groups. In addition, distinguishing users in collaborative group work is key for decreasing social-loafing. The results suggest that the proposed system does have potential to support a better group work assessment.
Keywords :
"Collaboration","Atmospheric measurements","Particle measurements","Databases","Education","Computers","Data visualization"
Conference_Titel :
Computer Aided System Engineering (APCASE), 2015 Asia-Pacific Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/APCASE.2015.54