TDMs
Topic Dependency Models (TDMs) use a common graph foundation to address some of the challenges that relate to the design, delivery and analysis of assessment.
Topic Dependency Models (TDMs) use a common graph foundation to address some of the challenges that relate to the design, delivery and analysis of assessment.
TDMs transfers exam or practice result into visualized diagram that show performance of different students on different topics as well as the relationship and coverage between each topic.
TDMs provide rich and timely feedback to students on their assessment.
TDMs adopts meaningful color and width to give direct analytic feedback.
TDMs provide benefits to a range of stakeholders including students, instructors, and educational researchers.
TDMs can be used in any dicipline.
TDMs enable students, instructors and educational researchers to better utilise student assessment data
students can use TDMs to compare their performance with class average to determine their weaknesses and strengths.
The tool has an interface for teaching staff that allows them to upload and analyse their assessment data.
The tool takes in two CSV files as input. One of the CSVs captures the question-topic relationships and the other CSV file captures the student-question-grade relationships.
Instructors can visualise the class-level TDMs to identify general gaps or misconceptions in the course
Instructors can visualise the individual-level TDMs to identify each students' gaps or misconceptions in the course
The tool has an interface for students to receive feedback on their assessments
Students use the tool to receive feedback on one or more assessments items.
Students can compare their own performance with the class average
An initial version of TDMS has been developed. A more advanced version that uses LTI for integeration into Learning Management Systems is under development.
TDMs uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript in the front-end and Python in the back-end.
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+61 4 140 51208
siying.lei@uq.net.au
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