<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Studying via the Internet using information tools is a common activity for students in higher education. With students accessing their subject material via the Internet, studies have shown that students have difficulty understanding the complete purpose of an assessment which leads to poor information search practices. The selection of relevant information for particular learning assessments is the topic of this paper as it describes a case study that focuses on the information tool use of a small group of participants and is a continuation of similar research studies. The study and discussed research findings point to the benefit of students use of a visualisation tool to provide relevant learning cues and to transition to improved engagement with online assessment.</p></abstract>

Studying via the Internet using information tools is a common activity for students in higher education. With students accessing their subject material via the Internet, studies have shown that students have difficulty understanding the complete purpose of an assessment which leads to poor information search practices. The selection of relevant information for particular learning assessments is the topic of this paper as it describes a case study that focuses on the information tool use of a small group of participants and is a continuation of similar research studies. The study and discussed research findings point to the benefit of students use of a visualisation tool to provide relevant learning cues and to transition to improved engagement with online assessment.

Using visualisation software to improve student approaches to HE online assessment

International Journal for Transformative Research

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Studying via the Internet using information tools is a common activity for students in higher education. With students accessing their subject material via the...

Using visualisation software to improve student approaches to HE online assessment

Published Online: Dec 29, 2017

Page range: 1 - 6

Received: Sep 20, 2017

Accepted: Oct 27, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ijtr-2017-0003

Keywords
Visualisation, Open source, Online, Assessment

© 2018

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Using visualisation software to improve student approaches to HE online assessment

Published Online: Dec 29, 2017

Page range: 1 - 6

Received: Sep 20, 2017

Accepted: Oct 27, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ijtr-2017-0003

KeywordsVisualisation, Open source, Online, Assessment

© 2018

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Visualisation, Open source, Online, Assessment