Author:
Michal Valenta
Affiliation:
Czech Technical University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Republic
Keyword(s):
Final project Grading, XML, XSLT, HTML.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Computer-Supported Education
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Information Technologies Supporting Learning
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Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment
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Supervising and Managing Student Projects
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Web-Based Learning, Wikis and Blogs
Abstract:
In this paper, we present a case study based on our two-years experience with a processing of a large amount of final projects (1200 students) in a basic course on database systems (Databases 101). Each student is required to present his/her own project documentation with a relatively well-defined structure and content. The present paper offers a solution to the following bias: each student has his/her own preferred/disfavored editor and, at the same time, the teacher needs to see all the final projects in a unitary format to make the results controlable. Furthermore, we address the issue of automated (or semi-automated) processing of some parts of the controling process. Importantly, the whole process involves exclusively standardized technologies implemented in many (also open-source) tools, XML and XSLT standardized by W3C in particular.