An Intelligent Grading System for e-Learning Environments

Shehab A. Gamalel-Din

2012

Abstract

Many educators believe that among effective learning methods are learning-by-explaining-experience and learning-by-correcting-mistakes through one-on-one interactions with students. It is not surprising, then, that an effective way of teaching is to give students immediate feedbacks on exercises and problems that they have just solved. Unfortunately, such one-on-one teaching scenarios are becoming increasingly difficult to arrange in e-learning, especially web-based learning, where the number of participating students is continuously increasing. Computerized empowered intelligent graders that provide students with comprehensive explanations on their mistakes and what a correct answer would be are of urgent need to overcome such difficulties. This research have introduced the new concept of Intelligent Grading Systems (IGS), designed a generic framework, and implemented Smart Grader (SG) – a simple proof of concept prototype. SG is assumed to either work as a separate grading tool or as an integrated component to e-Learning systems for grading programming and mathematics problems.

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A. Gamalel-Din S. (2012). An Intelligent Grading System for e-Learning Environments . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Interaction Design in Educational Environments - Volume 1: IDEE, (ICEIS 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-17-4, pages 3-13. DOI: 10.5220/0004087300030013


in Bibtex Style

@conference{idee12,
author={Shehab A. Gamalel-Din},
title={An Intelligent Grading System for e-Learning Environments},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Interaction Design in Educational Environments - Volume 1: IDEE, (ICEIS 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={3-13},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004087300030013},
isbn={978-989-8565-17-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Interaction Design in Educational Environments - Volume 1: IDEE, (ICEIS 2012)
TI - An Intelligent Grading System for e-Learning Environments
SN - 978-989-8565-17-4
AU - A. Gamalel-Din S.
PY - 2012
SP - 3
EP - 13
DO - 10.5220/0004087300030013