Development of Learning Analysis Software Using Handmade Clickers

Abstract

In this paper, learning analysis software is proposed. In the traditional achievement test, students cannot get results and feedbacks of the test immediately, because many tests of the students must be marked by teacher's own hand.Since the results and feedbacks are not returned until the mark is finished, the students take a long time to receive the results. In the previous study, the handmade clicker, which has been proposed by us to support active learning, can also realize the analysis of the student's answers immediately unlike the traditional achievement test. The proposed analysis software can provide feedbacks for both the students and the teacher's class by analyzing not only score but also response speed. The results provided by the proposed software are divided by the following 3 types: (1) all of the students, (2) each question and (3) each student. Owing to this analysis way, the proposed analysis software offers not only general analyzed results such as average score and correct answer rate, but also learning level and personality of the each student. Furthermore, advices for improving the learning method are also offered from these various viewpoints. The validity of the proposed software is confirmed by experiments using a demonstration data.