iRespond: iPhone/iPad/iPod touch as interactive personal response system

iRespond：iPhone/iPad/iPod touch 作为交互式个人响应系统

• 批准号: 1043129
• 负责人: Nathaniel Grove
• 金额: $ 19.94万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Wilmington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-06-01 至 2015-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1043129&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: iRespond; iPhone; iPad; iPod; touch

Personal response systems are quickly becoming indispensable formative assessment tools in many college-level chemistry courses. By using such devices, students are provided with invaluable insights into the skills perceived by the instructor as important, while concurrently, the instructor can gather feedback as to how well students have mastered those skills. In graphically intensive subjects such as chemistry, however, their use is severely limited by the input options afforded by current devices. It is often difficult to distill graphing and structure creation tasks into questions that can be answered with short strings of numbers or via multiple choice. The iRespond system is addressing this critical formative assessment need. Using the innovative touch interface of Apple's iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch, students are drawing graphs and structures using their fingers as input devices in response to questions provided by the instructor. Similar to traditional personal response systems, the answers are being collated and displayed graphically for the instructor who can modify instruction as needed. The suite of tools being developed has broad appeal as instructors strive to improve their students' understanding of chemistry by expanding the types of questions they can ask of their students. iRespond's question creation system is providing users with a convenient method of creating questions that have been custom-tailored to meet the needs of their students and the online repository is providing users access to an ever-expanding clearinghouse of questions developed by others. Because of this inherent flexibility, iRespond can easily be adapted for use in other science, engineering, or mathematics courses.

个人反应系统正在迅速成为许多大学化学课程中不可或缺的形成性评估工具。 通过使用这样的设备，向学生提供了对教师认为重要的技能的宝贵见解，同时，教师可以收集关于学生掌握这些技能的程度的反馈。 然而，在图形密集型学科（如化学）中，它们的使用受到当前设备提供的输入选项的严重限制。 通常很难将图形和结构创建任务提炼成可以用短串数字或通过多项选择回答的问题。 iRespond系统正在满足这一关键的形成性评估需求。 使用苹果iPad，iPhone和iPod Touch的创新触摸界面，学生们正在使用手指作为输入设备来绘制图形和结构，以回答教师提供的问题。 类似于传统的个人响应系统，答案被整理并以图形方式显示给教师，教师可以根据需要修改指令。 这套正在开发的工具具有广泛的吸引力，因为教师努力通过扩大他们可以向学生提出的问题类型来提高学生对化学的理解。iRespond的问题生成系统为用户提供了一种方便的方法，可以根据学生的需要量身定制问题，在线知识库为用户提供了一个不断扩大的问题交流中心，由他人开发。由于这种固有的灵活性，iRespond可以很容易地适用于其他科学，工程或数学课程。