Bibliography:
Randy Brooks, Jung In Koh, SethPolsley, and Tracy Hammond. Score Improvement Distribution When Using Sketch Recognition Software (Mechanix) as a Tutor: Assessment of a High School Classroom Pilot, Frontiers in Pen and Touch, Chapter 11, Springer, 2017
Summary:
This paper talks about the impact of deploying the mechanix application to a high school, based on student performance/grades. While the 'flipped classroom' model was proving to be effective and encourages more peer to peer (and instructor) interaction, the rapid increase in the number of online courses, has led to a need for intelligent tutoring systems, like Mechanix.
The Mechanix software is built based on LADDER, a general sketch recognition technique. Mechanix runs on any machine with java, and makes it easy to practice problems involving trusses, free body diagrams and vector analysis.
Mechanix was deployed in Lovejoy High school, in a Principles of Engineering course. This course was taken mostly by sophomores, but also included juniors and seniors. After an initial pre-mechanix quiz, the instructor deviced specific interventions to help students, solving problems in Mechanix being one of them.
After a week of practicing problems in Mechanix and a post-mechanix quiz, it was found that there was an overall improvement in the performance of students. The scores were grouped into three categories, based on the previous year's Mathematics grades. It was found that there was a significant improvement in scores, in each of these categories. The author concludes by talking about the positive impact of Mechanix, ease of deployment and its applications in other stem fields as well.
Discussion:
This article gives a nice example of impact of sketch recognition in the field of education. It makes me back to the beginnings of the 'learning through the lens of sketch' talk, where Dr.Hammond mentions, how its more intuitive for us humans to perceive and understand concepts better using sketches.
Though the author clearly mentions that they were not interested in studying the effective of mechanix vs traditional methods (due to both, the lack of a control group and existance of numerous studies to see the effect of ITS), I am still curious to know how this compares to a week of traditional tutoring.
Also, Mechanix was 'one of' the interventions done by the instructor to teach the students, I would like to know what the other interventions were and how they might have heped in the score improvement.
I personally believe that using ITS will definitely make education better and more accessible to students all around the world. Looking forward to a large scale deployment of Mechanix!
Randy Brooks, Jung In Koh, SethPolsley, and Tracy Hammond. Score Improvement Distribution When Using Sketch Recognition Software (Mechanix) as a Tutor: Assessment of a High School Classroom Pilot, Frontiers in Pen and Touch, Chapter 11, Springer, 2017
Summary:
This paper talks about the impact of deploying the mechanix application to a high school, based on student performance/grades. While the 'flipped classroom' model was proving to be effective and encourages more peer to peer (and instructor) interaction, the rapid increase in the number of online courses, has led to a need for intelligent tutoring systems, like Mechanix.
The Mechanix software is built based on LADDER, a general sketch recognition technique. Mechanix runs on any machine with java, and makes it easy to practice problems involving trusses, free body diagrams and vector analysis.
Mechanix was deployed in Lovejoy High school, in a Principles of Engineering course. This course was taken mostly by sophomores, but also included juniors and seniors. After an initial pre-mechanix quiz, the instructor deviced specific interventions to help students, solving problems in Mechanix being one of them.
After a week of practicing problems in Mechanix and a post-mechanix quiz, it was found that there was an overall improvement in the performance of students. The scores were grouped into three categories, based on the previous year's Mathematics grades. It was found that there was a significant improvement in scores, in each of these categories. The author concludes by talking about the positive impact of Mechanix, ease of deployment and its applications in other stem fields as well.
Discussion:
This article gives a nice example of impact of sketch recognition in the field of education. It makes me back to the beginnings of the 'learning through the lens of sketch' talk, where Dr.Hammond mentions, how its more intuitive for us humans to perceive and understand concepts better using sketches.
Though the author clearly mentions that they were not interested in studying the effective of mechanix vs traditional methods (due to both, the lack of a control group and existance of numerous studies to see the effect of ITS), I am still curious to know how this compares to a week of traditional tutoring.
Also, Mechanix was 'one of' the interventions done by the instructor to teach the students, I would like to know what the other interventions were and how they might have heped in the score improvement.
I personally believe that using ITS will definitely make education better and more accessible to students all around the world. Looking forward to a large scale deployment of Mechanix!
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