The Web: interactive and multimedia education
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Improving Multimedia Innovative Item Types for Computer Based Testing
ISM '06 Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia
Multimedia Projects in Education: Designing, Producing, and Assessing, Third Edition
Multimedia Projects in Education: Designing, Producing, and Assessing, Third Edition
A HIMI model for collaborative multi-touch multimedia education
AMC '09 Proceedings of the 2009 workshop on Ambient media computing
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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.