Session Information
ERG SES F 01, Parallel Session F 01
Paper Session
Contribution
This presentation will give an overview of the design-research study, where the aim was to enhance the quality of learning by introducing self assesment tests the students can use before taking an exam on the course Statistics and Data Analysis.
The course covers descriptive statistics and basics of interferential statistics. Teaching methods on the course are based on active learning and the focus of the course is on developing students’ ability to understand practical examples from real life and statistical problems connected to them. Thus, the basic stress on the course is laid on analyzing and interpreting data from real life, as well as developing statistical thinking, while majority of the analysis is computer-based. Despite the fact that the course is systematically developed and improved over the years and the student feedback is very high, the students don’t achieve as good results on their exams as expected. Hence the basic problem of this research: how to guarantee the students better support while preparing for the exam?
According to the given central problem the aims of this research are the following:
* Describe the role of assessment, feedback and self-control tests in the process of learning;
* Compile experimental self-control tests on one topic on the course „Statistics and Data Analysis“;
* Study the efficiency of self-control tests in real context through user research;
* Formulate the results of the analysis on self-control tests and bring out suggestions for improvement for the future.
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Expected Outcomes
References
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