International Journal of Modern Education and Computer Science (IJMECS)
IJMECS Vol. 7, No. 9, 8 Sep. 2015
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A Fuzzy Logic Approach to Assess Web Learner’s Joint Skills
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Author(s)
Mousumi Mitra
1,*
Atanu Das
1
Index Terms
E-learning, fuzzy logic, joint-skill, skill assessment, competencies
Abstract
Skill assessment is an important but complicated task in the entire web based teaching and learning process. The learner’s performance assessment has a strong influence on learners’ approaches to learn and their learning outcomes like professional acceptability on desired skills. Most educators focus either on assessing a learner’s technical skill set or non-technical skill set, individually, rather than focusing on both the aspects. This paper bridges the gap by applying fuzzy logic approach to analyze a learner’s joint skills incorporating both skills-set.
An already proven e-commerce website’s evaluation technique has been chosen and applied in two situations of learner’s skill assessment through case studies namely: technical skills evaluation, and non-technical skills evaluation. Experiments show that the learner’s success depends on both sets of skill attributes. This work then proposed a novel method for skill assessment considering two (instead of one) sets of skill attributes invoking parallel or joint application of the technique. This new technique has also been analysed through a case study.
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Mousumi Mitra, Atanu Das, "A Fuzzy Logic Approach to Assess Web Learner's Joint Skills", International Journal of Modern Education and Computer Science (IJMECS), vol.7, no.9, pp.14-21, 2015. DOI:10.5815/ijmecs.2015.09.02
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