Potentials of the Mobile Tablet for Formative Assessment...

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2 April 2014 !

MAKERERE UNIVERSITY

Potentials of the Mobile Tablet for Formative Assessment in Mathematics Education

Dr. Eng. Ghislain Maurice Isabwe, PhD. Researcher, Agder Mobility Lab Agder Digital Learning Arena Project (ADILA) & Distance Education Leapfrogging Project (DELP) ICT Department University of Agder, NORWAY. [email protected]

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Research &

Education

User experience

and Interaction

Design

Innovation in Learning through

Digital Media Scientific Project

creation and Management

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Dr. Eng. Ghislain Maurice N. Isabwe, PhD.About myself Bharathiar University : B. Eng.

Robert Gordon University: MSc

Swansea University : MPhil

University of Agder: PhD

Process EngineeringSystem Development

Norway is famous for its nature

Campus Kristiansand

STUDY PROGRAMS !10 (12) Ph. D. 22 Master >100 Bachelor

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2 years – Master (MSc)

3 years – Bachelor (BSc)

Faculties @ University of Agder

• Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences • Faculty of Humanities and Education • Faculty of Fine Arts • Faculty of Engineering and Science • Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences • Teacher Education Unit

Grimstad

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Content0. Motivation

1. Mobile Tablet Technology &

Mathematics

2. Formative assessment in Mathematics

3. Peer assessment: Student involvement

4. Tablet based tools

5. ConclusionAgder Digital Learning Arena (ADILA)

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•How to effectively and efficiently teach mathematics to large classes?

Motivation

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• How to enhance student-student interactions? •Collaboration and interactivity: within and between student groups

•How to promote student engagement in Learning?

Motivation

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•How to help students develop higher order cognitive skills in Mathematics courses?

Motivation

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•Personal, Portable & Connected • Touch & Voice based interactions •Photography, video, visualisation

Mobile Tablet Technology & Mathematics Formative assessment in Mathematics Peer assessment: Student involvement Tablet based tools Conclusion

Agder Digital Learning Arena (ADILA)!15


Mobile learning or m-learning “Learning supported by mobile technology based tools”

Mobile learning

Mobility

Availability Portability

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Access

Revise

Share

Create LEARNING CONTENT

Mobile learning or m-learning “Learning supported by mobile technology based tools”


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Mobile learning apps: e.g. Math Solver

Automatic mathematical problem solving


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Fully animated step-by-step procedures

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Graphing of mathematical relations


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Visualisations

Mobile learning apps

Definitions & theorems

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Formative assessmentMobile Tablet Technology & Mathematics Formative assessment in Mathematics Peer assessment: Student involvement Tablet based tools Conclusion

Assess students’ learning progress as they learn

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Formative assessmentMobile Tablet Technology & Mathematics Formative assessment in Mathematics Peer assessment: Student involvement Tablet based tools Conclusion

Give feedback on progress: timely bridge potential performance gap

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•Generation of mathematical problems •Hints on how to solve the problems •Integrated step-by-step solution

Automated formative assessment in mathematicsMobile Tablet Technology & Mathematics Formative assessment in Mathematics Peer assessment: Student involvement Tablet based tools Conclusion

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Automated formative assessment in mathematicsMobile Tablet Technology & Mathematics Formative assessment in Mathematics Peer assessment: Student involvement Tablet based tools Conclusion

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•Correction/ assessment according to pre-set answers •Efficient for multiple-choice exercises

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Challenges of automated assessment for learning in mathematics

How to develop and assess higher order cognition? •analysis of mathematical tasks / problems •application of the right procedures •evaluation & judgement on student´s achievement


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Natural writing: •Step-by-step assessment •On-the-spot corrections

Assessment using Tablet TechnologyMobile Tablet Technology & Mathematics Formative assessment in Mathematics Peer assessment: Student involvement Tablet based tools Conclusion

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Peer assessment using Tablet Technology

•Learning as a social activity •Criteria based assessment •Students provide feedback

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Student grouping for peer assessment*Mobile Tablet Technology & Mathematics Formative assessment in Mathematics Peer assessment: Student involvement Tablet based tools Conclusion

* Fisher-‐Yates shuffle and Round robin scheduling

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Tablet based tools for assessment in mathematics

•Easy to learn & Easy to use tools •Efficient: fast assessment of mathematical tasks

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START

Login Register if first time use

SELECT COURSE & ASSIGNMENT

Edit “Student profile" & Select "Course of study"

Select "Assignment" & Read "Assessment criteria"

Read the assignment

tasks

Do the assignment

tasks & submit your answers

Find & assess your peers’

answers

Provide feedback on your peers’

answers

Find & read feedback on your answers

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ent p

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ssMobile Tablet Technology & Mathematics Formative assessment in Mathematics Peer assessment: Student involvement Tablet based tools Conclusion

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ApplicationPresentation Backend

Technology overview

Web browser on Mobile Tablet

C# .Net4.0; HTML5; JavaScript

Win Server 2008 R2, MS SQL, IIS 7


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Effective: high quality feedback

Tablet based tool for assessment in mathematics

Sample

stud

ent


Agder Digital Learning Arena (ADILA)!34

Peer feedback using Mobile tablet based toolMobile Tablet Technology & Mathematics Formative assessment in Mathematics Peer assessment: Student involvement Tablet based tools Conclusion

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Assessment criteria: Correctness of calculationsPeer feedback using Mobile tablet based tool


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On-the-spot correctionsPeer feedback using Mobile tablet based tool


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“Check through the calculations in the first question. There are a couple mistakes with the fractions. In question 2 there are some errors, the answer isn´t far from correct. Just a couple miscalculations which easily happen when finding determinants for bigger matrices.”

Detailed feedback


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Performance level: MEDIUM


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Students like to be involved in assessing each other's work

Students´attitudes towards peer assessmentMobile Tablet Technology & Mathematics Formative assessment in Mathematics Peer assessment: Student involvement Tablet based tools Conclusion

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Students´attitudes towards peer assessment

Students perceive peer feedback as useful

Usefulness of peer-to-peer assessment on 5–point Likert scale


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Mobile based tools promote self-paced learning: Flexibility in formative assessment

“the iPad is portable, that means wherever you are you can apply for peer assessment”


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Mobile tablet based tools are easy to use


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Learning efficiency (less time usage)

Student activity in learning

Motivation

Learn short & easy to remember

Collaboration in problem solving

Helps to revise the learning material

Learning goal orientation

Timely and encouraging feedback

Mobile technology added value

Critical and reflective thinking

Students’ opinions on Pedagogical usability of A-PASS

Average of results of attitude tests on a 5-point Likert scale

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Conclusion“Jeg

syns det er en veldig god måte å lære på, og skulle gjerne hatt mer av det” I THINK THIS IS A VERY GOOD WAY OF LEARNING AND

I WISH I COULD HAVE MORE OF IT.


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Consideration of human factors • Affordances of the mobile tablet & human cognition to assess mathematical tasks

•Provision of regular feedback to large classes

ConclusionMobile Tablet Technology & Mathematics Formative assessment in Mathematics Peer assessment: Student involvement Tablet based tools Conclusion

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Future directions

Integrate peer assessment into the curriculum

User studies • technical usability • pedagogical aspects

Evolve the solution • process review • improve the user

experience


THANK YOU

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