A Two-Stage Multi-Agent Based Assessment Approach to Enhance Students' Learning Motivation through Negotiated Skills Assessment

In this paper we present an Agent-based evaluation approach in a context of Multi-agent simulation learning systems. Our evaluation model is based on a two stage assessment approach: (1) a Distributed skill evaluation combining agents and fuzzy sets theory; and (2) a Negotiation based evaluation of...

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Published in:Educational Technology ＆ Society 2015-04, Vol.18 (2), p.140-152
Main Authors: Chadli, Abdelhafid, Bendella, Fatima, Tranvouez, Erwan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Persistence
Assessed values
CAI
Collaborative learning
Competency based education
Computer Assisted Instruction
Computer simulation
Dropout Prevention
Dropout Rate
Educational environment
Educational Experiments
Evaluation Criteria
Evaluation Methods
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Fuzzy logic
Fuzzy sets
Learning
Learning Motivation
Machine learning
Motivation
Multiagent systems
Problem Solving
School dropouts
Simulation
Simulation training
Skill Analysis
Skills
Student Evaluation
Student evaluation of teacher performance
Student Motivation
Students
Subjective assessment
Systems analysis
Training
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Summary:In this paper we present an Agent-based evaluation approach in a context of Multi-agent simulation learning systems. Our evaluation model is based on a two stage assessment approach: (1) a Distributed skill evaluation combining agents and fuzzy sets theory; and (2) a Negotiation based evaluation of students' performance during a training simulation or a Problem-solving process in a Computer-assisted learning system. This paper highlights how this approach deals with the problem of subjective evaluation of students, and shows the impact of Negotiated skills evaluation on reducing the students' rate of dropout. This approach can also compensate the absence of human expert for assessing training results. Applied to training in plant protection, experiments' results showed first the fuzzy sets based assessment to be similar to the domain expert's assessment and second the negotiated skills assessment to be effective in assessing students' abilities and sustaining students' motivation to continue learning. This evaluation approach allows us to address the problem of subjective assessment and overcome some difficulties encountered in traditional measurement models.
ISSN:1176-3647
1436-4522
1436-4522