Conference Session

Using Classroom Technologies

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Renée Butler; Christina Scherrer

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

AC 2009-2195: DEVELOPING A STANDARD STUDENT INTERFACE FORONLINE COURSES THROUGH USABILITY STUDIESRenee Butler, Southern Polytechnic State UniversityChristina Scherrer, Southern Polytechnic State University Page 14.445.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Developing a Standard Student Interface for Online Courses through Usability StudiesAbstract – In recent years there has been significant growth in the popularity and offering ofonline education. Due to limited availability of instructional designers and developmentresources, faculty are often called upon to develop the content, learning strategies, and userinterface for online

Conference Session

Student Learning

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay Martin, University of Wisconsin, Madison; John Mitchell, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Jennifer Welter, Wiley; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

is satisfactory, andwhere additional focus is needed. Finally, we also found that there are manychallenges to using a single concept inventory to assess student understanding in agiven class or course. The most important challenge arises because of thepractical limit on the number of questions in a given inventory. This limits thenumber of questions for any specific topic, which means that it may be impossibleto accurately assess student understanding for all topics in a typical engineeringcourse using a single inventory assessment.As a result of this past work, we have been engaged in the development of a morecomprehensive system for assessment of student learning. Similar to the conceptinventories, individual multiple-choice items are the