1. New Proposals about Evaluation of Complete e-Learning Course Digestion
Evgeny Eremin
AICT
Astana, 2014
New Proposals about Evaluation of Complete e-Learning Course Digestion
Perm State Pedagogical University (Russia)

2. Objective measurement of results – one of the main problems of e-Learning
My report propose
some new ideas in this area.

3. The main idea of evaluation:
student’s knowledge after mastering an educational course
must be the organic whole
but not the mosaic of isolated facts.
(isolated facts vs one picture)
(student 1)
(student 2)
How can we evaluate this?

4. Example of calculations
is coded in
binary system
is coded in
data
data
binary system
is representation of
is measured in
information
bit(s)
is a base of
is stored in
symbol
1 byte
is measured in
information
bit(s)
consists of
memory
cells
F = 4 (facts)
T = 8 (topics)
G = 4 (groups)
T/G = 2
F = 4 (facts)
T = 4 (topics)
G = 1 (group)
T/G = 4
(student 1)
(student 2)

5. Real student’s results:
7 groups of concepts:
= 38
T/G =
38/7 ≈
5.4

6. How I measured (1) Base of concepts
Eremin E.A. Using Topic Map Technology in the Planning of Courses from the CS Knowledge Domain.
7th Baltic Sea Conference on Computing Education Research (Koli Calling 2007).

7. How I measured (2) Software for measurement
Details: Eremin E.A. Original Experimental Method to Evaluate Conceptual Students’ Knowledge. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2012, Volume 55, p

8. With what I compared results (1)
I supposed that success of course’s
learning can also be evaluated
independently as a time
of finishing all tasks.
So I get simple gauges of learning success:
rating number R (1 .. N) or
X-rating = (R - 1) / (N - 1) (0 .. 1, doesn’t depend from N).

9. With what I compared results (2)
Linear correlation between X and examination marks is near –0.8
first student
last student
mark = -1.7 X (1)

10. Final diagram T/G = -1.6 X + 5.0 (2)
Expression (2) is close to (1) from the previous slide!

11. Thanks! Are you interested? Evgeny Eremin eremin@pspu.ru
Evgeny Eremin