Toward a data analytics -based approach for computing and predicting context- sensitive teaching effectiveness  

作　　者：Kun Tian Ying He Xiaoran Xu Jiangyang Fu 

机构地区：[1]College of Software,Tianjin Normal University,Tianjin,China [2]School of Management,Tianjin Normal University,Tianjin,China [3]School of Information Management,Nanjing University,Nanjing,Jiangsu Province,China

出　　处：《Data Science and Informetrics》2021年第4期26-46,共21页数据科学与信息计量学（英文）

基　　金：The work in this paper is jointly funded by Tianjin Municipality Natural Science Foundation(18JCYBJC44500);the National Social Science Foundation of China(No.20BTQ084).

摘　　要：The traditional student-oriented course evaluation has been the major assessment method on teaching effectiveness worldwide.Useful as it is,it has been widely and continuously criticized for not being a fair,accurate,and reliable measurement.In search of a more objective assessment method on teaching effectiveness that also reflects the impacts of context-based learning,we propose a theoretical approach from a unique perspective that recognizes teaching effectiveness as a result of the interplays between teacher,student,and context.The approach can be used to compute as well as to predict teaching effectiveness using machine and deep learning technologies,which brings strategical benefits to institutional management.In addition,we install into the approach a mechanism using tokens as incentives to assure the quality of subjective data input.The application framework for the approach is proposed leveraging blockchain.Each implementation of the framework by an establishment is a decentralized application that runs on its chosen blockchain.It is envisioned that the implementations together will form a collective ecology on context-based relative teaching effectiveness,which has the potential to fundamentally impact other academic practices besides teaching effectiveness measurement.The theoretical approach provides a common language to delineate teaching effectiveness from the context-based relative perspective and is customizable during implementation.The teaching effectiveness assessment using the approach downplays the roles played by bias(subjectity)and hence is more objective than that by traditional student-oriented course evaluation.

关 键 词：Relative teaching effectiveness Data science application Blockchain Context-based leaming Token economy 

分 类 号：TP311.13[自动化与计算机技术—计算机软件与理论] G424[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]