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On-line Assistant for Writing Course Objectives
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| Abstract |
The Instructional Objective Writing Assistant (IOWA) is a simple online knowledge-based system that serves to help instructors write good course objectives. Instructional objectives are important for a number of different reasons and yet objectives are often not written, written incorrectly, or incompletely written. Instructors can use IOWA to solve the problems of absent, incorrect and incomplete objectives. The program asks the instructor questions about the course for which objectives are to be written and then returns a graph, based on the input of the instructor, that shows which levels of cognition should be focused on when writing objectives. The instructor then uses this graph along with the suggestions, instructions, hints and examples provided on the rest of the web site, to write objectives that are correct and complete. This paper will present the motivation for creating IOWA, the knowledge upon which IOWA is based, how IOWA works, and initial results from the use of IOWA.
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Georgia Institute of Technology
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Authors |
Mr. Sean W. St. Clair, Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Nelson C. Baker, Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology
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| Citation |
St. Clair, S. W., Baker, N C.. On-line Assistant for Writing Course Objectives. Proceedings. Frontiers in Education Conference, Kansas City, MO, Oct. 2000. |
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