1. The Role of Independent Studies Rationale #7

2. Your opportunity to work with faculty
Each masters student can take one non-graded course.
CSC 630
ECE 633
ECE 634
An opportunity to work
individually, or almost so.

3. How independent studies contribute to this course
Design-patterns exercises
Lectures on new topics
Have exercises for all GoF patterns in Java and Ruby. Would like them in C++.
Original Ruby lectures were created this way, before textbooks were available.
With mentoring, idea is to have students work for credit one semester and then a smaller number of them be paid to “mentor other mentors.”
Mentoring of OSS projects
Software applications

4. Research-based independent studies
1. Exploring applications of AI in peer assessment
2. Compare peer-review grades with overall grades on projects and courses
3. Data mining for plagiarism detection in online exams
4. Studies in teammate assessment (tentative)
5. Literature review on recent peer-assessment research

5. Research and implementation based independent studies
6. Web-service implementations of AI-based peer-review metrics
7. Micro-credentialing (digital badging)
8. Recommend and incorporate visualizations for peer assessment
9. Revision planning tool (tentative)
10. Support for logging & data-mining peer-assessment behavior
11. Implementing new bidding algorithms

6. Implementation-based independent studies
12. Mentoring OSS projects
13. Grab data from external tools and display as metrics in Expertiza
14. Improvements in teammate assessment
15. Set up an open-source error monitoring tool instead of Airbrake
16. Calibration for instructors and TAs
17. Integrate Expertiza with LMSs (tentative)
18. Front-end/back-end separation (tentative)
19. Mobile student interface for Expertiza (tentative)

7. Rules & Guidelines Work about as much as a regular course.
Record each week
what you have accomplished
what you will do next week.
Meet with us weekly.
Present your work at the end of the semester.

8. Next Steps
You decide what you want to work on (fill in “other” if you wish).
Fill out the form, picking topics you’re interested in.
If more than 1 or 2 people pick a topic, I’ll ask you to provide details on
background
ideas