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QuizMap: Open Social Student Modeling and Adaptive Navigation Support with TreeMaps

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Towards Ubiquitous Learning (EC-TEL 2011)

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In this paper, we present a novel approach to integrate social adaptive navigation support for self-assessment questions with an open student model using QuizMap, a TreeMap-based interface. By exposing student model in contrast to student peers and the whole class, QuizMap attempts to provide social guidance and increase student performance. The paper explains the nature of the QuizMap approach and its implementation in the context of self-assessment questions for Java programming. It also presents the design of a semester-long classroom study that we ran to evaluate QuizMap and reports the evaluation results.

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  1. School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, USA

    Peter Brusilovsky & I-Han Hsiao

  2. University of Ibadan, Nigeria

    Yetunde Folajimi

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  1. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avenida Universidad 30, 28911, Leganés (Madrid), Spain

    Carlos Delgado Kloos  & Raquel M. Crespo García  & 

  2. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Denis Gillet

  3. The Open University, Walton Hall, MK7 6AA, Milton Keynes, UK

    Fridolin Wild

  4. Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT), Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Martin Wolpers

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Brusilovsky, P., Hsiao, IH., Folajimi, Y. (2011). QuizMap: Open Social Student Modeling and Adaptive Navigation Support with TreeMaps. In: Kloos, C.D., Gillet, D., Crespo García, R.M., Wild, F., Wolpers, M. (eds) Towards Ubiquitous Learning. EC-TEL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6964. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23985-4_7

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