The 4th Workshop of Modeling, Management and Generation of Problems/Questions in Technology-Enhanced Learning

Solving problems/questions is one of the most indispensable and important components in the teaching and learning process. Problems/questions with adequate quality in various testing conditions are believed to enable teachers to assess individual students' capability and readiness of transfer in specific domain knowledge. Despite this, there are still many areas in need of systematic investigation to promote knowledge and skills on problems/questions-centered learning approach, including learning by problem solving and/or generation. For instance: what criteria constitute as adequate test item quality (in addition to frequently cited psychometric index like item difficulty, discrimination index); how to best assess learner's capability with appropriate quality level within constrains (e.g., an optimal number of items, time limitation, etc.); any feasible metadata heuristics and/or techniques for problems/questions selection; any promising alternative strategies for compiling a sufficient amount of number of problems/questions; any scaffolding techniques for question-generation implementation and instructional diffusion and so on.

In ICCE2006 and 2007, and 2009, we held a series of workshops where we paid special attention to "questions/problems" in technology-enhanced learning. This is the 4th workshop focusing on the same topic. This continuous workshop will provide a good and timely opportunity to present and share the results and issues about "problems/questions" in ICCE community. We cordially invite presenters and participants who are interested in further exploring the many facets and potential uses of "problems/questions" in education/learning from a technological, pedagogical, psychometrics, theoretical, sociological and administrative point of views.

Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

• Problem/question generation/authoring/posing
• Learning by problem/question-posing
• Problem/question variation/changing
• Problem analysis and evaluation
• Structurization of domain knowledge
• Problem/question selection
• Metadata or Ontology of problems
• Metacognition in problem-solving or problem-posing
• Test theory
• Instructional intervention for problem/question-authoring in classrooms

Style of Workshop:

Mini-conference with paper presentations

Important dates

• August 27, 2010: Submission deadline for workshop paper
• September 3, 2010: Acceptance notification of workshop paper
• October 1, 2010: Early Bird Registration
• October 8, 2010: Final version deadline for workshop paper

Paper format

The maximum page length is 8 pages and the format follows the template in Author Guidelines of ICCE 2010 (http://icce2010.upm.edu.my/author_guide.html).

Paper submission

Please send a submission to icce2010-pq-ws@watanabe.ss.is.nagoya-u.ac.jp before August 27, 2010.

Workshop Organizers

• Tsukasa Hirashima (Hiroshima University, Japan)
• Tomoko Kojiri (Nagoya University, Japan)
• Tanja Mitrovic (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
• Fu-Yun Yu (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

Executive PC members

• Kazuaki Kojima (Waseda University, Japan)
• Nguyen-Thinh Le (University of Clausthal, Germany)

PC Members

• Akihiro Kashihara (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
• Hideo Funaoi (Hiroshima University, Japan)
• Hidenobu Kunichika (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Niels Pinkwart (University of Clausthal, Germany)
• Noriyuki Matsuda (Wakayama University, Japan)
• Tatsuhiro Konishi (Shizuoka University, Japan)
• Tomoo Inoue (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• Tomoya Horiguchi (Kobe Univeristy, Japan)