Engaging students to work with self-assessment questions: a study of two approaches

Authors:
Peter Brusilovsky;Sergey Sosnovsky
Affiliations:
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA;University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Venue:
ITiCSE '05 Proceedings of the 10th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Year:
2005

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Abstract

We explored two approaches for encouraging introductory programming students to use the web-based, self-assessment system, QuizPACK. An "organizational" approach applied specially constructed classroom quizzes, while the "technical" approach introduced adaptive guidance. Our studies demonstrated that each of these caused a dramatic increase in system use. This approach could be useful in many other contexts, when an educationally beneficial system is underused by students.