The 5th Workshop on 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, 2007, 2009, and 2010, we held a series of workshops where we paid special attention to "questions/problems" in technology-enhanced learning. This is the 5th 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.

The workshop will be held either on November 29, 2011, before the main conference. All workshop participants are required to register for the main conference, but there will not be additional workshop fee.

Style of Workshop:

Mini-conference with paper presentations

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

Workshop Program

13:20-13:30	Opening speech
13:30-15:00	Session (I)
Predictive Effects of Online Peer-Assessment on Student Question-Generation
Fu-Yun Yu, Chun-Ping Wu
Toward better Collaborative Problem-solving in Programming Learning: Use of Pair Programming and Its Observation
Yuki Hirai, Tomoo Inoue
Experimental Study on Failures in Composing Solution Structures in Mathematical Problems
Kazuaki Kojima, Kazuhisa Miwa, Tatsunori Matsui
Stepwise Selection of English Multiple-choice Cloze Questions Based on Difficulty-based Features for Keeping Motivation (short)
Tomoko Kojiri, Yuki Watanabe, Toyohide Watanabe
15:00-15:30	Coffee break
15:30-16:35	Session (II)
A Phone-based Question Management System to Facilitate Questioning and Comprehension Monitoring
Po-Yao Chao, Howe-Yii Ling, Baw-Jhiune Liu
Incorporating Framing into SQL-Tutor
Tanja Mitrovic
Preliminary Evaluation of an Intelligent Authoring System for 'Graph of Microworlds' (short)
Tomoya Horiguchi, Tsukasa Hirashima
16:35-16:40	Closing speech

Presentation Instructions

• For Full Paper presentation, 20 minutes will be allocated for presentation and 5 minutes for discussion. For Short Paper presentation, 10 minutes will be allocated for presentation and 5 minutes for discussion. Please keep the presentation within the time limit set.
• Please strictly follow the assigned schedule for paper presentation.
• It is assumed that you will have your own laptop (with a VGA output) for your presentation. Please try your presentation in the actual lecture room prior to your session to ensure that your laptop and presentation work on that equipment.
• Please note that electricity in Thailand is 220V / 50Hz. You are advised to bring power converters or adapters for your own laptop and other electric equipment if necessary.

Workshop Organizers

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

Executive PC member

• Kazuaki Kojima (Waseda University, Japan)

PC Members

• Hideo Funaoi (Hiroshima University, Japan)
• Tomoya Horiguchi (Kobe Univeristy, Japan)
• Tomoo INOUE (University of Tsukuba)
• Tatsuhiro Konishi (Shizuoka University, Japan)
• Hidenobu Kunichika (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Nguyen-Thinh Le, (University of Clausthal, Germany)
• Niels Pinkwart(University of Clausthal, Germany)