06/23/22 Experiences from Finland: Developing a Practise System and remarks from usability tests Beaver Workshop 2009 Experiences from Finland Developing a Practise system and Remarks from Usability Tests Timo Poranen University of Tampere Department of Computer Sciences Email: [email protected]http://www.cs.uta.fi/ ~tp
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04/20/23 Experiences from Finland: Developing a Practise System and remarks from usability tests
Beaver Workshop 2009
Experiences from FinlandDeveloping a Practise system and Remarks from Usability
04/20/23 Experiences from Finland: Developing a Practise System and remarks from usability tests
Beaver Workshop 2009
Finland: current beaver status
• At them moment, there is no own beaver contest in Finland.– Only Datastar-contest to select students to be trained for BOI and
IOI.
• Hard to find resources (people, time, funding).– Reason: informatics is not a school subject.
• We implemented a Beaver practise system during academic year 2008-2009 at the University of Tampere.
• The system will be used in some schools and to sell the idea for companies and ministry of education.
04/20/23 Experiences from Finland: Developing a Practise System and remarks from usability tests
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Future goals
• To involve government, more university people, teachers and companies.
• Write to Finnish language journals on the Beaver contest: – Finnish Mathematics teacher’s association’s newsletter– Pedagogical newsletters– University reports– To write a similar booklet as Germany did for teachers.
• To get some schools to use the practise system during their (mathematics?) lessons.
• Own contest 2010 or 2011?
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Student project team
• Team structure– 5 BSc students
(developers)– 4 MSc students
(project managers)– 1 usability
specialist (majoring in Interactive technology)
04/20/23 Experiences from Finland: Developing a Practise System and remarks from usability tests
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Overview of the project
•The project implemented a practise system for the Beaver contest.•The system contains tasks from 2007 and 2008 contests in Finnish and in English.•The system is available for everyone: http://majava.cs.uta.fi•The system supports only practising, not real contests.
04/20/23 Experiences from Finland: Developing a Practise System and remarks from usability tests
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Project experiences
• Translation of tasks is very hard part– Fluent task translation was difficult for the students – Preferably teachers from schools (not only overloaded university staff!)
are needed for translations.• From lecturer’s point of view: Almost everything went normally/fine
• Most of the team members worked at the same time they study -> so the project would have done more if the student would have had more time to concentrate on the course…
• Public report from the project will be published as a technical report in dept’s electronic publication series.
04/20/23 Experiences from Finland: Developing a Practise System and remarks from usability tests
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Technical details Ruby 1.8.2007 progr. lang.Ruby on Rails 2.3.2002 frameworkEclipse+svn dev. env.PostgreSQL 8.2.5 databaseApache 2.2.6 HTTP www-serverFirefox 3.0.X BrowserTasks HTML-code•Localisable to other languages (Finnish, English)•Code is free (GPL) and available for eveyone•No support for interactive tasks or contests.•Graphics/pictures: from the Lithuania or from earliers tasks or drawn by the project group.
04/20/23 Experiences from Finland: Developing a Practise System and remarks from usability tests
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Practise system: how it works?
Student point of view:• Students select their age-group and question year• Answer questions (no time limit)• After answering, the system gives feedback and tells the
correct answers.• It is possible to go back to aswer questions as many times as
you like.
Administrator point of view• Administrator has a www-UI for adding / editing / deleting
tasks / languages / years / age-categories…• Taks/years/categories can be disabled/enabled without
deleting them.• Usage logs, picture upload,…
04/20/23 Experiences from Finland: Developing a Practise System and remarks from usability tests
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Demo
http://majava.cs.uta.fi/
or
some screenshots…
04/20/23 Experiences from Finland: Developing a Practise System and remarks from usability tests
Beaver Workshop 2009
Screenshot
04/20/23 Experiences from Finland: Developing a Practise System and remarks from usability tests
Beaver Workshop 2009
Usability test
• Standard usability test– 16 small test cases– Moderator– Test person thinks aloud– Interview – Video recording– Only 2 participants– Findings classified to