ON THE USE OF AN ON-LINE FREE-TEXT SCORING SYSTEM INDIVIDUALLY OR COLLABORATIVELY

Diana Pérez-Marín, Ismael Pascual-Nieto, Pilar Rodríguez

2009

Abstract

Willow is an adaptive web-based application that allows students to review course material. The system analyzes the students’ free-text answers providing immediate feedback to the students. In the past, Willow has been used by individuals working alone. However, the trend of improving learning performance by allowing students to cooperate inspired us to develop a collaborative version of Willow. Our hypothesis was that students working together can reach understanding of ideas better than working individually with Willow. Therefore, in this paper, we explore the collaborative use of the system. We describe from a computer-science perspective, the minimum changes that have to be done to the system in order to permit a collaborative review. Furthermore, we provide the preliminary results of an experiment in which 22 students were given the possibility of using the individual or collaborative version of Willow.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Pérez-Marín D., Pascual-Nieto I. and Rodríguez P. (2009). ON THE USE OF AN ON-LINE FREE-TEXT SCORING SYSTEM INDIVIDUALLY OR COLLABORATIVELY . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8111-81-4, pages 501-506. DOI: 10.5220/0001820305010506

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist09,
author={Diana Pérez-Marín and Ismael Pascual-Nieto and Pilar Rodríguez},
title={ON THE USE OF AN ON-LINE FREE-TEXT SCORING SYSTEM INDIVIDUALLY OR COLLABORATIVELY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2009},
pages={501-506},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001820305010506},
isbn={978-989-8111-81-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - ON THE USE OF AN ON-LINE FREE-TEXT SCORING SYSTEM INDIVIDUALLY OR COLLABORATIVELY
SN - 978-989-8111-81-4
AU - Pérez-Marín D.
AU - Pascual-Nieto I.
AU - Rodríguez P.
PY - 2009
SP - 501
EP - 506
DO - 10.5220/0001820305010506