Enabling teachers to explore grade patterns to identify individual needs and promote fairer student assessment

Exploring student test, homework, and other assessment scores is a challenge for most teachers, especially when attempting to identify cross-assessment weaknesses and produce final course grades. During the course, teachers need to identify subject weaknesses in order to help students who are struggling with a particular topic. This identification often needs to happen across multiple assessment data points and should be considered in comparison to the class's progress as a whole. When determining grades, fairness to all is essential, but there are special needs for students who did poorly on one exam or had a steadily increasing grasp of the subject. We present eduViz, a visualization tool designed to help teachers explore and assign grades. Teachers can see the trajectory of student scores, the relationship of a particular student to the class, and use categories they have defined in order to filter their assessment information. Query response is immediate and all logical compa...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: CE
• Authors: Sorelle A. Friedler, Yee Lin Tan, Nir J. Peer, Ben Shneiderman
• Keywords: CE 2008, Final Course Grades, Student, Student Scores