Creation of Adaptive Tutorials for Aerospace Students

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Introduction
Online tutorials for 3rd year aerospace courses Topics that will be covered Introduction to composites (with colleague) A,B and D matrices in laminates

Failure theories in composites

Why create online tutorials?

Easier to manage and easily accessible More appealing to students

Aim of the study

The main aim of the study is to investigate if there is a relationship between the performance of students in an online tutorial and their perception of the tutorial. Performance Data obtained from the results of the students Perception Data obtained from feedback provided by students

Quantifying perception
Students respond to descriptive statements of the tutorial Negative response weighted lower and positive response weighted higher Strongly Disagree (-2) Disagree (-1) Neutral (0) Agree (1) Strongly Agree (2)

What is feedback?
Feedback is information that can influence the path of a system Path here is students performance in the tutorial Feedback can be of grouped into Non-adaptive feedback Simple cognitive feedback (right or wrong) Adaptive feedback Diagnostic feedback (where you went wrong) Prescriptive feedback (how to get the right answer)

What is feedback?

Previous research
Raad (2012) and Tuli (2012) considered the effects of different feedback on performance

Study performed in Semester 1 2012

Utilised tutorials that were created for AERO3410
Closed section shear flow tutorial Open section shear flow tutorial

Previous research
Established that adaptive feedback made students more efficient
30% less time taken to complete tutorials

Perception of tutorials was more positive for adaptive feedback

Data analysis of previous research

Closed section tutorial
100% 90% 80%

Overall Score (%)

70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0%

-2.50

-2.00

-1.50

-1.00

-0.50

0.00

0.50

1.00

1.50

2.00

2.50

Perception

Data analysis of previous research

Open section tutorial
100% 90% 80%

Overall Score (%)

70%

60%
50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0%

-2.50

-2.00

-1.50

-1.00

-0.50

0.00

0.50

1.00

1.50

2.00

2.50

Perception

Discussion of past research

The data shows possible relationship between performance and perception.

Methodology
Choose topics Storyboarding
Helps visualize the tutorial Concepts that are hard to visualize Unnecessary content is removed

Creation
Using Smart Sparrow

Helps design the flow of the tutorial

Trap states definition

Methodology
Tutorials created using Smart Sparrow platform Completely online Graphical interface Advantages of Smart Sparrow Creation of trap-states In-depth tracking of student performance including Time spent Number of wrong attempts Pathway followed by students

Methodology
Cross-over study One group receives adaptive feedback Other group receives non-adaptive feedback

Group 1 Non-Adaptive Feedback

Group 2 Adaptive Feedback

Methodology
In the next tutorial, the feedback is swapped, so as to : Prevent any students being disadvantaged Acquire more refined data The data that is obtained from these tutorials is then analysed
Group 1 Adaptive Feedback Group 2 Non-Adaptive Feedback

Issues
Ethics of testing on humans Application rejected in first semester (3 month delay) Inability to use any data from first semester Non-serious response from students

Future work and conclusion

Framework for study is designed and ready to be tested Study the role of perception inducing factors such as
Time taken Visual style

Data obtained from previous studies supports the hypothesis, however more definite testing has to be performed.

Thank you
Any questions?