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MessageGrid Replay Ink: Pinpointing Student Misconceptions

MessageGrid Replay Ink: Pinpointing Student Misconceptions. Roy P. Pargas Clemson University US Air Force Academy Colorado Springs, CO October 15, 2009. Where is Clemson University?. Where is Clemson University?. US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO. Where is Clemson University?.

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MessageGrid Replay Ink: Pinpointing Student Misconceptions

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  1. MessageGrid Replay Ink: Pinpointing Student Misconceptions Roy P. Pargas Clemson University US Air Force Academy Colorado Springs, CO October 15, 2009

  2. Where is Clemson University? Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  3. Where is Clemson University? US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  4. Where is Clemson University? Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina US Air Force Academy Colorado Springs, CO Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  5. Outline • Advances in Technology: Tablet PCs • Interactivity in the Classroom • Tool: MessageGrid Replay Ink • Features • Assign, Collect, Evaluate • Replay, Tag, Analyze • Current and Future Work • Acknowledgements Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  6. The Opportunity Lenovo ThinkPad X Series Tablet HP Pavilion dv3t series WACOM Tablets Tablet PCs and Slates Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  7. The Challenge Lenovo ThinkPad X Series Tablet HP Pavilion dv3t series WACOM Tablets • How can instructors use Tablet PCs to advantage in and out of the classroom? Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  8. 2002 Clemson Laptop Mandate • Every student is required to have a laptop computer with wireless access to the Internet Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  9. The Challenge • How can instructors use the laptop computers to advantage in and out of the classroom? Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  10. Clemson’s Proposed Solution: MessageGrid • Web-based software tool to help promote interactivity in the classroom Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  11. Proposed Solution: MessageGrid • Web-based • Basic grid: rows and columns • Instructor designs grid • Students post original submissions or replies to submissions • Anything displayed by a browser • Text, image, audio, video, animation, Ink, maps • Why use such a tool? • Student responses to in-class exercises, presentations, online discussions, student questions, feedback from students, … Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  12. MessageGrid Evolution Every semester since January 2004, more instructors use MessageGrid At semester’s end, instructors discuss possible improvements Suggestions with most instructor support are implemented Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  13. Current MessageGrid Features Message Grid Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  14. Current MessageGrid Features Basic Grid: Feedback/submissions from students Message Grid Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  15. Current MessageGrid Features Basic Grid: Feedback/submissions from students Message Grid Clickers: Assessment/Polling Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  16. Current MessageGrid Features Basic Grid: Feedback/submissions from students Message Grid Clickers: Assessment/Polling Ink: Submitting diagrams and equations, rather than text Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  17. Current MessageGrid Features Basic Grid: Feedback/submissions from students Message Grid Clickers: Assessment/Polling Mobile: Images, video, audio, GPS, and text in a portable, handheld grid Ink: Submitting diagrams and equations, rather than text Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  18. Current MessageGrid Features Basic Grid: Feedback/submissions from students Message Grid Simple Upload/Evaluate: Rubric to facilitate evaluation of Freshman Eng’g labs Clickers: Assessment/Polling Mobile: Images, video, audio, GPS, and text in a portable, handheld grid Ink: Submitting diagrams and equations, rather than text Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  19. Current MessageGrid Features Basic Grid: Feedback/submissions from students (FIE 2005, ITiCSE 2006) New! Message Grid Simple Upload/Evaluate: Rubric to facilitate evaluation of Freshman Eng’g labs Clickers: Assessment/Polling (SIGCSE 2006) New! Mobile: Images, video, audio, GPS, and text in a portable, handheld grid Ink: Submitting diagrams and equations, rather than text (PLT 2007, FIE 2007, FIE 2008) Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  20. Current MessageGrid Features Message Grid Ink: Submitting diagrams and equations, rather than text Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  21. MessageGrid Replay Ink Message Grid Ink: Pinpointing student misconceptions Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  22. Has MessageGrid Changed Teaching?

  23. Teaching Style • Studio Format (aka Mentoring, Coaching) • Reduced lecture • More classroom activity/interactivity Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  24. Teaching Style • Studio Format (aka Mentoring, Coaching) • Reduced lecture • More classroom activity/interactivity • Typical 75-minute lecture period • Data structures and algorithms • 20-minute lecture, 5-minute exercise, • repeated 3 times • Typical 110-minute lab period • 15-minute lecture, 95-minute lab exercises Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  25. The Sandbox Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  26. Checking Out a Tablet Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  27. Working Individually Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  28. Working Individually Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  29. Teams of Three Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  30. Teams of Two Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  31. Tablet Use at Clemson HP Tablet PC Video Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  32. Key Observation • Tablet PCs can provide • Final Inked solutions • Intermediate Ink stroke sequences • Ink strokes can be • Collected • Played and replayed • Tagged and analyzed Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  33. MessageGrid Replay Ink • For example: Can provide interactivity in a data structures class (drawing graphs) • Instructor assigns exercises • Students submit solutions • Evaluation of solutions • Tagging of solutions • Analysis of tags Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  34. MessageGrid Replay Ink • Student solutions can be • Reviewed: Played and replayed • Tagged • Analyzed Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  35. MessageGrid Replay Ink • Solutions include: • Linked lists • Stacks • Queues • Trees of all types (BST, AVL, Splay, B-Tree, binary heap, leftist heap, skew hap, binomial queue, etc.) • Generic graphs March 5, 2009 March 5, 2009 March 5, 2009 35 35 35 Pargas and Bryfczynsski SIGCSE 2009, Chattanooga, TN Pargas and Bryfczynsski SIGCSE 2009, Chattanooga, TN Pargas and Bryfczynsski SIGCSE 2009, Chattanooga, TN Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  36. Goals • Immediate goal • Deliver CS2/CS7 course content more effectively • Long term goal • Understand thought process of CS2/CS7 student • Early identification of students at risk Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  37. MessageGrid Replay Ink Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  38. Problem Specifications Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  39. Sample Ink Solutions Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  40. Sample Ink Solutions All submissions attributed Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  41. Sample Ink Solutions All submissions date/time stamped Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  42. Student Submissions Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  43. Replaying Student Ink • Demo • Expression tree (correct) • Expression tree (incorrect) • Gallivanting AVL • Tagging • Analysis Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  44. Student Evaluation • Feedback generally positive on MG • Students like immediate feedback • Pinpointing mistakes helpful • Anonymous evaluation of student submissions • Tagging has begun (SIGCSE 2010) • Analysis of tags has begin Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  45. Four Current Projects

  46. Algebra and Calculus “Transitioning through Technology:  Using Digital Learning Environments in Calculus as a Collaborative Model to Advance STEM Students through Four-year Institutions”, (with Marilyn Reba, Calvin Williams), 2009 Hewlett-Packard Innovations in Education Grant “Mathematics Partnering with Computer Science to Improve Calculus Instruction and Learning”, (with Calvin L. Williams, Marilyn Reba, National Science Foundation CCLI Type 2 (2008 NSF CCLI-2) Mobile Instructional Technology for Integrating Classroom and Laboratory Activities for STEM Students (MITICLASS)”, (with Marilyn Reba, Calvin Williams, and Lisa Benson), 2007 Hewlett-Packard Technology for Teaching Leadership Grant Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  47. Freshman Engineering “CU Thinking”, (with Lisa C. Benson, David Bowman, Michelle P. Cook), National Science Foundation Innovations in Engineering Education Curriculum, and Infrastructure (NSF IEECI) Mobile Instructional Technology for Integrating Classroom and Laboratory Activities for STEM Students (MITICLASS)”, (with Marilyn Reba, Calvin Williams, and Lisa Benson), 2007 Hewlett-Packard Technology for Teaching Leadership Grant Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  48. Organic Chemistry “OrganicPad: A Tablet PC-Based Interactivity Tool for Organic Chemistry”, (with Melanie M. Cooper and Calvin L. Williams), National Science Foundation Alternative Learning Technologies (NSF ALT). “OrganicPad: A Tablet PC-Based Interactivity Tool for Teaching Chemistry”, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation 2009 Special Grant Program in the Chemical Science, (with Melanie M. Cooper). Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  49. Generic Tools: Nursing, English, Psychology, etc. "Mobile Instructional Technology for Integrating Classroom and Laboratory Activities for STEM Students (MITICLASS)”, (with Marilyn Reba, Calvin Williams, and Lisa Benson), 2007 Hewlett-Packard Technology for Teaching Leadership Grant “Development of a Targeted Tablet PC Software Development Course”, 2004 Microsoft Research Tablet PC and Computing Curriculum Grant “Development of a Network Applications Course Using Microsoft .NET, SQL Server, and IIS”, 2003 Microsoft Curriculum and Content Development Grant Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

  50. Current / Future Work • Fall 2009, Spring 2010 • Tagging existing student submissions • Collecting and tagging additional solutions • Analysis of tags • Summer 2010 • Continuing analysis of tags • Fall 2010 • Reports, reports, reports! Roy Pargas, Current Research USAFA 2009, Colorado Springs, CO

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