An Investigation of the Enhancement and the Formal Description of IMS/QTI Specification for Programming Courses

Author

Harchay, Ahlem ; Cheniti-BelcadhI, Lilia ; Braham, Rafik

Author_Institution

ISITCom, PRINCE Res. Group, Univ. of Sousse, Hammam Sousse, Tunisia

fYear

2010

fDate

5-7 July 2010

Firstpage

113

Lastpage

115

Abstract

Assessment plays an essential role in the educational activity, not only to verify the knowledge acquisition of learners, but also as a motivation factor. In this paper we consider the IMS/QTI specification. We first propose a formalization of the question structure in his specification based on ontology, representing its information model. Then we enhance this specification by adding new types of questions/interactions and apply them to an Object Oriented Programming (OOP) course. In this context, we specify a new type of interaction that we called "composite Text Interaction" and which can define questions of type "identify the errors in a program and correct them". The new type of question has been integrated into an editor for question construction supporting the IMS/QTI specification.

Keywords

computer science education; formal specification; knowledge acquisition; object-oriented programming; ontologies (artificial intelligence); IMS-QTI specification; composite text interaction; educational activity; formal description; knowledge acquisition; object oriented programming course; ontology; Context; Object oriented modeling; Ontologies; Programming profession; Software; Unified modeling language; IMS/QTI editor; IMS/QTI specification; Web based Assessment; e-Learning; ontology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sousse

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7144-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2010.39

Filename

5571180