Tools for Research Management
Recent advancement in E-Learning tools has enabled learning techniques to be measured quantitatively and qualitatively. With the state-of-the-art tools, teaching engagement and student’s learning can be gauged where improvements can be made through variou
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Abstract Recent advancement in E-Learning tools has enabled learning techniques to be measured quantitatively and qualitatively. With the state-of-the-art tools, teaching engagement and student’s learning can be gauged where improvements can be made through various feedbacks obtained from the tools. However, few works have been carried out to measure student’s learning for research-related works. Though there exist certain standards and measurements in judging a research quality, most of these works are highly subjective and is subject to argument. In this paper, we propose a novel technique to effectively measure a student ability to conduct research effectively. Several benchmarks and standards are used to evaluate the learning curve, such as the ISI, Scopus, and Citations score. In addition to that, we measure the student’s writing skills, reviewer feedback, their ability to conduct a proper literature review, as well as their analytical skills using various qualitative methods. Then, we combine the student’s skills where a summary of skills can be obtained so that we can further evaluate and plan the student progress as well as improving the university research initiatives and policies. Keywords Web 2.0
Research methodology E-Learning
1 Introduction Recent advancement in E-Learning tools has made it possible for us to gauge the effectiveness of learning methods. From the traditional pen and pencil to exam paper-based questions, researchers (e.g., student, academician, industry researcher) have embarked upon IT technology whereby online tools are used to ease the user’s learning experience. However, very few studies have been made to gauge student’s learning skills in doing research. If we can effectively measure the student
J.L. Hong (&) Taylor’s University, Subang Jaya, Malaysia e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016 S.F. Tang and L. Logonnathan (eds.), Assessment for Learning Within and Beyond the Classroom, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0908-2_13
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performance in research, it is certainly useful for us to monitor and formulate improvement plan so that students can effectively cope with their study life. Most people have acknowledge that doing high-impact research is a non-trivial task, due to the complexity of work involved and the many challenges that lie ahead. Fortunately, most research, if not all, do have certain methodology whereby we can measure them qualitatively and quantitatively. Typically, research methodology involves finding a research area, conducting literature review, formulate the research problem, finding motivation, proposed solution, and experimenting on the given solution. Though one is not able to promise a working solution right ahead, but one can effectively monitor his task and formulate an improvement plan if a tool is developed (Fig. 1). In this paper, we developed an E-Learning tool to effectively gauge a researcher learning experience in conducting a research. Several management tools have been developed, and some
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