Student Participation Index: Student Assessment in Online Courses

Alan Y.K. Chan, Paul Kai On Chow, K. S. Cheung

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Abstract

Online courses have been widely used to support teaching and learning in higher education. It is essential to develop methods to properly assess students in online course usages. This paper proposes a student participation index for assessing students in online courses. The index consists of a number of components, such as pages viewed and forum questions read and posted, and associated weights. It has the benefits of being non-course-specific, nonsubjective, extendible and flexible. The development of the index and how it is used to evaluate students are described in the paper. Results indicate that students with higher index usually achieve better grades and vice versa.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsWenyin Liu, Yuanchun Shi, Qing Li
Pages449-456
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)3540225420, 9783540225423
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3143
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

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