Research Article
An E-tool for Assessing Undergraduate Students’ Learning of Surveying Concepts and Practices
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-32304-1_16, author={Hazar Dib and Nicoletta Adamo-Villani}, title={An E-tool for Assessing Undergraduate Students’ Learning of Surveying Concepts and Practices}, proceedings={IT Revolutions. Third International ICST Conference, C\^{o}rdoba, Spain, March 23-25, 2011, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={IT REVOLUTIONS}, year={2012}, month={10}, keywords={E-assessment Surveying Games Technological Issues in Education E-content Management and Development Virtual Universities}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-32304-1_16} }- Hazar Dib
Nicoletta Adamo-Villani
Year: 2012
An E-tool for Assessing Undergraduate Students’ Learning of Surveying Concepts and Practices
IT REVOLUTIONS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32304-1_16
Abstract
We describe an innovative e-assessment tool for Surveying Education and report the results of a pilot study with a group of undergraduate students enrolled in the Building Construction Management Program at Purdue University. The e-assessment tool consists of two parts: a student’s component and an instructor’s component. The students’ component is a Virtual Learning Environment that can be used by students to review surveying concepts and practices and get feedback on their understanding of the subject. The instructor’s component is a summative assessment tool that measures the individual student’s cognitive and practical abilities with high level of accuracy. Results of a pilot study with 31 students enrolled in an undergraduate surveying course show that students perceived the application as easy to use, very useful for reviewing class content, and effective at providing immediate and accurate feedback on their performance. A comparison between the grades obtained by manually grading the field exercise and the grades generated by the e-assessment tool showed a significant disagreement between the 2 sets of data, with the electronically generated grades being much lower. Analysis of the data recorded by the e-tool suggests that the deviation between the two sets of grades is due to the ability of the e-assessment tool to track the individual student’s performance more accurately.