scholarly journals Esplorare (con) i Dizionari Digitali e trasferire competenze di consultazione

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Marello ◽  
Marina Marchisio ◽  
Marta Pulvirenti
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Automatic Assessment ◽  
Transfer Of Skills

As Internet became more widespread, the use of printed dictionaries decreased. However, users’ abilities to consult online dictionaries are still not adequately developed. The project Esplorare (con) i Dizionari Digitali – through Moodle platform – allows users to carry out online exercises in order to develop both their linguistic knowledge and their ability to consult online dictionaries of different languages. We present the results of an study that involved around 300 students of Italian secondary schools, showing how the structure of the platform and the exercises, common to all languages, leads to transfer of skills. The exercises were created using Möbius Assessment, an automatic assessment system, already tested for scientific subjects.

scholarly journals Developing Web-Application’s Automated Testing Technique

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-110
Author(s):  
A. V. Tkachev ◽  
D. V. Irtegov
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Automated Testing ◽  
Automatic Assessment ◽  
Testing Technique ◽  
Code Coverage ◽  
Client Side ◽  
User Actions

The article is devoted to the technique of automated testing of NSUts – automatic assessment system for programming tasks developed at NSU. The main priority for this technique is to test both the old and the new versions of the application, so that the same or minimally modified tests could be executed on two versions of the system with different architectures. This could be useful while organizing the development process for other applications with a long life cycle. To test not only the server but also the client side of the web application, we suggest using tools like Selenium WebDriver to simulate user actions by sending commands to real browsers. We use the well-known Page Object design pattern to handle differences in HTML layout and functionality, and describe a number of ways to make developed tests less fragile and easily adapt those to work with the new version of the system. The article also describes the use of this technique to organize automated testing of the NSUts system and analyzes its effectiveness. The analysis shows that the estimated code coverage by these tests is quite high, and therefore the technique can be considered effective and applied to other similar web applications.

scholarly journals Automatic Assessment of Prosodic Quality in Down Syndrome: Analysis of the Impact of Speaker Heterogeneity

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 1440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Corrales-Astorgano ◽  
Pastora Martínez-Castilla ◽  
David Escudero-Mancebo ◽  
Lourdes Aguilar ◽  
César González-Ferreras ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Down Syndrome ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Relative Weight ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Developmental Level ◽  
Prosodic Features ◽  
Automatic Assessment ◽  
Speaker Variability ◽  
The Impact

Prosody is a fundamental speech element responsible for communicative functions such as intonation, accent and phrasing, and prosodic impairments of individuals with intellectual disabilities reduce their communication skills. Yet, technological resources have paid little attention to prosody. This study aims to develop an automatic classifier to predict the prosodic quality of utterances produced by individuals with Down syndrome, and to analyse how inter-individual heterogeneity affects assessment results. A therapist and an expert in prosody judged the prosodic appropriateness of a corpus of Down syndrome’ utterances collected through a video game. The judgments of the expert were used to train an automatic classifier that predicts prosodic quality by using a set of fundamental frequency, duration and intensity features. The classifier accuracy was 79.3% and its true positive rate 89.9%. We analyzed how informative each of the features was for the assessment and studied relationships between participants’ developmental level and results: interspeaker variability conditioned the relative weight of prosodic features for automatic classification and participants’ developmental level was related to the prosodic quality of their productions. Therefore, since speaker variability is an intrinsic feature of individuals with Down syndrome, it should be considered to attain an effective automatic prosodic assessment system.

scholarly journals A learning-centred approach to teaching linguistic knowledge: Teachers’ perception of teaching periods 1 and 2(/3) in the new English curriculum for secondary schools in Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-25
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thanh Tung
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
Learning Centered ◽  
New Curriculum ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Poster Presentations

The new curriculum was promulgated at the end of 2018. Therefore, there is a need to investigate how teachers perceive the teaching of linguistic knowledge in addition to skills to develop secondary school learners’ communicative competence. The study was carried out during the three months of July, August and October of 2020 in the three provinces of Kien Giang, Ben Tre and Lam Dong with the participation of 120 teachers from 106 secondary schools. Data were collected in the form of group poster presentations for the first two/three periods in the textbooks for the new curriculum and analyzed according to three aspects of form, meaning and use for linguistic knowledge and their sequence. The findings of the study indicate that the teacher participants have a vague idea about teaching the aspects of linguistic knowledge from a learning-centered approach, do not know their sequence of meaning, form and use, and normally follow the activities and their order in the textbook as the only resort available.

scholarly journals Parole 'difficili' con un sistema di valutazione automatica. Risposte di italofoni e di non italofoni

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-81
Author(s):  
Marina Marchisio ◽  
Carla Marello ◽  
Marta Pulvirenti
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Automatic Assessment ◽  
Stem Disciplines ◽  
Early Results ◽  
L2 Learners ◽  
Lexical Competence ◽  
Enhanced Learning

This paper is concerned with lexical competence in the study of Italian for academic purposes, notably learned words formed with Greek/Latin elements. To improve and check receptive knowledge of such “difficult” vocabulary both by native and by L2 learners, a number of exercises are made available, and can be actually done and evaluated, at https://esploradizionari.i-learn.unito.it/. This is a technology enhanced learning environment integrating Moodle with the Automatic Assessment System Maple®, a software of Canadian origin already successfully used for teaching STEM disciplines. The specific features of the exercises are discussed, along with early results by Italophone and non-Italophone learners.

A Framework of an Automatic Assessment System for Learning Programming

2015 ◽  
pp. 967-977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuraini Abdul Rashid ◽  
Lau Wei Lim ◽  
Ooi Sin Eng ◽  
Tan Huck Ping ◽  
Zurinahni Zainol ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Assessment System ◽  
Automatic Assessment ◽  
Learning Programming

scholarly journals Difficulties Faced by Science Teachers in Selected Public Schools in Kuwait: A Descriptive Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ebrahim Abdullah Al-Kandari ◽  
Tahraoui Ramdane ◽  
Mohamad Sahari Nordin
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
School Management ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Science Laboratory ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire

There are numerous difficulties associating with the teaching process in the secondary public schools in Kuwait. The aim of the study is to determine some of the difficulties facing science teachers in secondary schools of Mubarak AL Kabeer governorate in Kuwait. The difficulties encountered by science teachers in secondary schools were examined under these issues: curriculum objectives, student assessment system, school management and science laboratory. Seventy-seven science teachers were chosen randomly from secondary schools in Mubarak AL Kabeer governorate. A structured pretested self-administered questionnaire in Arabic was used to collect data for this study. The analyzed data indicated that both male and female science teachers have difficulties with the curriculum objectives, student assessment system, school management and science laboratory. This study suggested number of recommendations for teachers and administrators in secondary schools

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