WebMark—A Fully Automated Method of Submission, Assessment, Grading, and Commentary for Laboratory Practical Scripts

General Chemistry Student Attitudes and Success with Use of Online Homework: Traditional-Responsive versus Adaptive-Responsive

“…Administrative (e.g., computerized grading) and pedagogical (e.g., instant feedback) advantages of online homework systems (OHSs) have made their use commonplace in large enrollment chemistry courses. As OHSs have evolved in sophistication, student perceptions toward OHSs have shifted to become largely positive with the average student viewing OHSs as a valuable learning tool. − However, prompt, detailed feedback and tutorial prompts are essential to students’ perceptions of OHSs as effective. ,− The more response-specific the feedback is, the more time students invest working within the OHS. , Response-specific feedback occurs when the reason for a student’s incorrect response is detected by the OHS and feedback is targeted to address that mistake. In a stoichiometry problem, for example, the system may detect that the student used an incorrect mole-to-mole ratio and provide a corresponding hint or explanation.…”

Ethical Implementation of an Automated Essay Scoring (AES) System: A Case Study of Student and Instructor Use, Satisfaction, and Perceptions of AES In a Business Law Course

“…Time and date of submission is recorded automatically, and since computers can only be objective no personal bias in grading is possible (Olivier, Herson & Sosabowski, 2001). Another AES benefit is its ability to act as a plagiarism detector.…”

“…In correlating the human and AES scores he found that the AES outperformed three of the human judges and was nearly as reliable as the other three (Johnson, 1996). Olivier, Herson & Sosabowski (2001) found that pharmacology students preferred AES scoring over human scoring due to increased speed of feedback and grading, as well as the flexibility of working on and submitting their assignment from any location that had Internet access.…”

Adding automatic evaluation to interactive virtual labs

“…In general, these systems are aimed at designing online courses based on a sequence of short, concise questions which may not be appropriate for general science courses, and in particular chemistry courses. In Olivier, Herson, and Sosabowski (2001), WebMark, a fully automated method of submission, assessment, grading, and commentary for chemical laboratory practical scripts was presented. This system is based on designing ad hoc for each exercise, a web page in which the students provide their answers and a Filemaker Pro script that performs calculations using the student's data to establish their "right" answers.…”