An Electronic Student Observatory

Thomas, Pete; Macgregor, Malcolm; Martín, Mauro San

doi:10.1109/fie.1998.738579

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“…AESOP is An Electronic Student Observatory Project [6][7][8][9][10][11][12], at the Open University 1. It consists of a collection of software applications for recording, replaying and automatic analysis of recorded data, which allows remote detailed observation of subjects using on-line expository material.…”

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Observational studies of student errors in a distance learning environment using a remote recording and replay tool

Thomas

Logan

2001

Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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AESOP is An Electronic Student Observatory Project consisting of a set of tools written in Smalltalk allowing student's activities and progress through an on-line distance education course to be remotely recorded, replayed and analysed. The following paper outlines some initial findings from observations made on a crosssectional group of 368 volunteers taking the course in 2000. Students observed using low resolution 640 x 480 screens were noted to take significantly longer to complete on-line course work (p=0.018). Differences between genders were also found with females reporting less comfort at using computers and males using a greater variety of central processing units. Some evidence indicates that female students were also more likely to be using lower specification machines than males although the differences noted were found to be just outside significance levels.

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Observational studies of student errors in a distance learning environment using a remote recording and replay tool

Thomas

Logan

2001

Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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“…AESOP is An Electronic Student Observatory Project (http://mcs.open.ac.uk/AESOP/) (Thomas et al, 1998a;1998b;Thomas and Paine, 2000b;2000c;2000a), at the Open University that consists of a collection of software applications for recording, replaying and automatic analysis of recorded data. AESOP has been built around the Open University's distance education course M206 Computing: An Object-Orientated Approach (The Open University, 1998) which teaches amongst other things the Smalltalk object-orientated language (OOL) language and concepts involved in OOL and networking.…”

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Observational studies of student errors in a distance learning environment using a remote recording and replay tool

Thomas

Logan

2001

SIGCSE Bull.

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AESOP is An Electronic Student Observatory Project consisting of a set of tools written in Smalltalk allowing student's activities and progress through an on-line distance education course to be remotely recorded, replayed and analysed. The following paper outlines some initial findings from observations made on a cross-sectional group of 368 volunteers taking the course in 2000. Students observed using low resolution 640 x 480 screens were noted to take significantly longer to complete on-line course work (p=0.018). Differences between genders were also found with females reporting less comfort at using computers and males using a greater variety of central processing units. Some evidence indicates that female students were also more likely to be using lower specification machines than males although the differences noted were found to be just outside significance levels.

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“…This is part of a longer term project making observational studies of distance education students learning to program known as AESOP, An Electronic Student Observatory Project (Thomas et al, 1998;MacGregor et al, 1999;Logan & Thomas, 2001;Thomas & Paine, 2002). This is part of a longer term project making observational studies of distance education students learning to program known as AESOP, An Electronic Student Observatory Project (Thomas et al, 1998;MacGregor et al, 1999;Logan & Thomas, 2001;Thomas & Paine, 2002).…”

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Learning Style Preferences of Computing Students in Distance Education

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Thomas²

2002

Journal of Intelligent Systems

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This paper reports on initial findings from an experiment that investigated differences in computing students' learning style preferences and the relation with observed work related practices. A repeated measures experimental design was used in which four questionnaires were administered to students online via the web. The students were asked to complete the questionnaires both before and after studying the object-oriented programming part of an introductory distance education course in computing. Three questionnaires were used to measure learning and cognitive style preferences: Honey and Mumford's (Honey, 1986;Honey & Mumford, 1995) Learning Styles Questionnaire, a modified version of the Grasha and Reichmann Student Learning Styles Scales and an English translation of Antonietti and Giorgetti's Questionnaire on Visual and Verbal Styles. The fourth questionnaire gathered demographic information including perceived level of comfort with computing and related measures. Thepreliminary results indicate that certain observed behavior in the students may be due to learning style preferences. The results also suggest that in a distance learning environment, provision must be made for collaborative learning as well as independent learning. This result is applicable to both genders. For males alone, however, the strong correlation found between activist and avoidant preferences suggests that their observed behavior in avoiding face-to-face activities may be due to a learning style preference as well as to issues related to life-style.

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An Electronic Student Observatory

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Observational studies of student errors in a distance learning environment using a remote recording and replay tool

Observational studies of student errors in a distance learning environment using a remote recording and replay tool

Observational studies of student errors in a distance learning environment using a remote recording and replay tool

Learning Style Preferences of Computing Students in Distance Education

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