An Effective Multimedia Item Shell Design for Individualized Education : The Crome Project
Joint Authors
Source
Issue
Vol. 2008, Issue 2008 (31 Dec. 2008), pp.1-10, 10 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2008-05-08
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
There are several advantages to creating multimedia item types and applying computer-based adaptive testing in education.
First is the capability to motivate learning by making the learners feel more engaged and in an interactive environment.
Second is a better concept representation, which is not possible in conventional multiple-choice tests.
Third is the advantage of individualized curriculum design, rather than a curriculum designed for an average student.
Fourth is a good choice of the next question, associated with the appropriate difficulty level based on a student's response to the current question.
However, many issues need to be addressed when achieving these goals, including: (a) the large number of item types required to represent the current multiple-choice questions in multimedia formats, (b) the criterion used to determine the difficulty level of a multimedia question item, and (c) the methodology applied to the question selection process for individual students.
In this paper, we propose a multimedia item shell design that not only reduces the number of item types required, but also computes difficulty level of an item automatically.
The concept of question seed is introduced to make content creation more cost-effective.
The proposed item shell framework facilitates efficient communication between user responses at the client, and the scoring agents integrated with a student ability assessor at the server.
We also describe approaches for automatically estimating difficulty level of questions, and discuss preliminary evaluation of multimedia item types by students.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Cheng, Irene& Basu, Anup. 2008. An Effective Multimedia Item Shell Design for Individualized Education : The Crome Project. Advances in Multimedia،Vol. 2008, no. 2008, pp.1-10.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Cheng, Irene& Basu, Anup. An Effective Multimedia Item Shell Design for Individualized Education : The Crome Project. Advances in Multimedia No. 2008 (2008), pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-501151
American Medical Association (AMA)
Cheng, Irene& Basu, Anup. An Effective Multimedia Item Shell Design for Individualized Education : The Crome Project. Advances in Multimedia. 2008. Vol. 2008, no. 2008, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-501151
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-501151