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We describe an innovative e-assessment tool for Surveying Education and report the results of a pilot study with a group of undergraduate students enrolled in the Building Construction Management Program at Purdue University. The e-assessment tool consists of two parts: a student’s component and an instructor’s component. The students’ component is a Virtual Learning Environment that can be used by students to review surveying concepts and practices and get feedback on their understanding of the subject. The instructor’s component is a summative assessment tool that measures the individual student’s cognitive and practical abilities with high level of accuracy. Results of a pilot study with 31 students enrolled in an undergraduate surveying course show that students perceived the application as easy to use, very useful for reviewing class content, and effective at providing immediate and accurate feedback on their performance. A comparison between the grades obtained by manually grading the field exercise and the grades generated by the e-assessment tool showed a significant disagreement between the 2 sets of data, with the electronically generated grades being much lower. Analysis of the data recorded by the e-tool suggests that the deviation between the two sets of grades is due to the ability of the e-assessment tool to track the individual student’s performance more accurately.
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Dib, H., Adamo-Villani, N. (2012). An E-tool for Assessing Undergraduate Students’ Learning of Surveying Concepts and Practices. In: Liñán Reyes, M., Flores Arias, J.M., González de la Rosa, J.J., Langer, J., Bellido Outeiriño, F.J., Moreno-Munñoz, A. (eds) IT Revolutions. IT Revolutions 2011. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 82. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32304-1_16
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