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A virtual experiment environment was developed to provide students a virtual space to engage students learning science and practicing science process skills. To provide teachers information of their students’ science process skills according to the actions and decisions students taken within the virtual experiment environment, a graph edit distance based diagnosis methodology was proposed. A small pilot in which 31 grade-10 students participated had been conducted. This short research study aims to verify whether or not the proposed method can correctly diagnose students’ science process skills.
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Fan, MX., Chang, M., Kuo, R., Heh, JS. (2015). Students’ Science Process Skills Diagnosis. In: Chen, G., Kumar, V., Kinshuk, ., Huang, R., Kong, S. (eds) Emerging Issues in Smart Learning. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44188-6_41
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