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The Role of Independent Studies Rationale #7. Your opportunity to work with faculty. Each masters student can take one non-graded course. CSC 630 ECE 633 ECE 634 An opportunity to work individually, or almost so. How independent studies contribute to this course.
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Your opportunity to work with faculty • Each masters student can take one non-graded course. • CSC 630 • ECE 633 • ECE 634 • An opportunity to work • individually, or almost so.
How independent studies contribute to this course Design-patterns exercises Lectures on new topics Mentoring of OSS projects Software applications
Research-based independent studies • 1. Exploring applications of AI in peer assessment • 2. Compare peer-review grades with overall grades on projects and courses • 3. Data mining for plagiarism detection in online exams • 4. Studies in teammate assessment (tentative) • 5. Literature review on recent peer-assessment research
Research and implementationbased independent studies • 6. Web-service implementations of AI-based peer-review metrics • 7. Micro-credentialing (digital badging) • 8. Recommend and incorporate visualizations for peer assessment • 9. Revision planning tool (tentative) • 10. Support for logging & data-mining peer-assessment behavior • 11. Implementing new bidding algorithms
Implementation-based independent studies • 12. Mentoring OSS projects • 13. Grab data from external tools and display as metrics in Expertiza • 14. Improvements in teammate assessment • 15. Set up an open-source error monitoring tool instead of Airbrake • 16. Calibration for instructors and TAs • 17. Integrate Expertiza with LMSs (tentative) • 18. Front-end/back-end separation (tentative) • 19. Mobile student interface for Expertiza (tentative)
Rules & Guidelines • Work about as much as a regular course. • Record each week • what you have accomplished • what you will do next week. • Meet with us weekly. • Present your work at the end of the semester.
Next Steps • You decide what you want to work on (fill in “other” if you wish). • Fill out the form, picking topics you’re interested in. • If more than 1 or 2 people pick a topic, I’ll ask you to provide details on • background • ideas