drs. mai yin tsoi and sonal dekhane
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Meeting Students' Needs In-House: Software Development with Peers As Clients to Increase Research Skills. Drs. Mai Yin Tsoi and Sonal Dekhane. GGC STEM Mini-Grant Spring 2012. Overview of ITEC/CHEM Partnership. Background ITEC 3870 CHEM 2211 Research Skills Targeted - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Drs. Mai Yin Tsoi and Sonal Dekhane
MEETING STUDENTS' NEEDS IN-HOUSE: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
WITH PEERS AS CLIENTS TO INCREASE RESEARCH SKILLS
GGC STEM Mini-Grant Spring 2012
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BackgroundITEC 3870CHEM 2211Research Skills TargetedFundamentals of TsoiChem II AppQuantitative Results
Peer EvaluationsUsability Testing
Future Directions
OVERVIEW OF ITEC/CHEM PARTNERSHIP
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Background:Inspiration: daughter’s iTouch experienceDr. Tsoi’s goal: iTouch learning tool
Main objective: Will using a touch-screen device be effective for learning a new skill?
BACKGROUND
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Number of participants: 12Males: 9Females: 3Age range: 21 – 50+ years oldEthnicity: majority Caucasian, 2 African-
American, 1 AsianPrevious Experience: 2 students in mobile
apps development, 1 in graphics and design
DEMOGRAPHIC DATA – ITEC 3870
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Junior/senior level courseGoal: teach students how to
implement SD in real-world projectsProject-based courseSmall enrollmentMobile apps introduced 1st class
meeting
ITEC 3870 – SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT II
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Required course for majors in: Biology, Nursing, Pharmacy, Dental, etc.
Historically VERY difficultVisual in nature – utilizes spatial,
logical, abstract thinkingMechanism drawings– difficult skill to
master
CHEM 2211/2 – ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
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Traditional SD course
Communication skills: discussed / studied
Written skills: for instructor, evaluated by instructor
Multiple perspectives: limited
GGC SD Partnership
Communication skills applied with “client”
Written skills: for CHEM students, evaluated by app users
Multiple perspectives: enriched by CHEM students
WHY PARTNERSHIP BENEFICIAL
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Develop effective reading, writing, and communication skills
Demonstrate creativity and critical thinkingDemonstrate effective use of information
technologyDemonstrate an ability to collaborate in diverse
and global contextsDemonstrate an understanding of human and
institutional decision making from multiple perspectives
Demonstrate an understanding of moral and ethical principles
Demonstrate and apply leadership principles
GGC’S SEVEN IEE GOALS
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Objective 1: Develop effective reading,
writing, and communication skills
IEE 1Interacting with Organic professor, students; setting up requirement
documents, project plansObjective 2: Demonstrate creativity
and critical thinking IEE 2 Design of mobile appObjective 3: Demonstrate effective use
of information technology IEE 3 Xcode, Apple Interface Builder, learning Objective C
Objective 4: Demonstrate an ability to
collaborate in diverse and global contexts
IEE 4 Working together as a class and with Organic students to design app
Objective 5:
Demonstrate an understanding of human and institutional decision
making from multiple perspectives
IEE 5Design of mobile app--taking into
account how a range of users might make a variety of choices while playing
mobile appObjective 6: Demonstrate an
understanding of moral and ethical principles
IEE 6 Plagarism of existing code from other sources, referencing appropriate sources
Objective 7: Demonstrate and apply
leadership principles IEE 7 SD students taking charge of various phases of design and development cycle
HOW PROJECT SUPPORTS IEE GOALS
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Objective 1: SD class documents; class presentation videos;
conference calls; discussion boardsObjective 2: Instructor evaluation of SD students’ coding of mobile
app – grading rubricObjective 3: SD student midterm/final exam grades
Objective 4: SD students peer evaluations; teacher evaluations on
collaboration, participationObjective 5: SD students Use Case Diagrams – analyzed for multiple
perspectives of users – Use Case Grading RubricObjective 6: SD citations and references – Grading Rubric
Objective 7: SD students’ peer evaluations; teacher evaluations on
leadership
ASSESSMENT
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ORAL PRESENTATION RUBRIC
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PEER EVALUATION
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BLOG REFLECTION RUBRIC
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Molecular reactivity explained = electron movement
Students required to draw arrows = electron movement
Need to understand origin, direction, target
Many struggle – several concepts used simultaneously
WHAT IS A MECHANISM?
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EXAMPLE OF A MECHANISM
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TSOICHEM II: BACK FOR THE ATTACK
3 Modes of LearningIdentify, Draw, Challenge
Tutorial screens, Help screensColors to differentiate / guide
userVisuals re-affirmed by color
and soundPositive visuals/sounds as
rewardsSounds/visuals when incorrect
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Unexpected group dynamicsLeadership variedAffected by personality, experience
Learning objectives trumped by projectStudents sacrificed learning for sake of project
Pride regardless of participationRealization of importance = communication
Breakdown caused issuesFeelings, pride hurtPower issues
RESULTS OF PEER EVALUATIONS & INTERVIEWS
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Very little self-reflectionMore ‘reporting’ than communicativeLittle interaction between partiesMajority of communication = phone,
emailMini-teams communicated the mostFuture: devise better method to
document communication
RESULTS FROM STUDENT BLOGS
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Students found UT extremely helpful
Evidence of awareness of multiple perspectives
Evidence of leadershipEvidence of communication
skills improvementEvidence of critical
thinkingAnalyzing why user’s comments were new, unforseen
RESULTS FROM USABILITY TESTING
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FUTURE DIRECTIONS
• Analyze student interviews further• Analyze student blogs further• Instructor evaluations• Quiz/final exam scores