An approach for Evaluating Question Posing Ability in a Web-based Collaborative Learning

Abstract

With the rapid development of e-learning environment, question-posing learning activity has become an important instruction mode for both teaching and learning. Although previous research has demonstrated the benefits for both instructors and students in the question-posing learning activity, this learning approach still has some difficulties. One of the major difficulties is the lack of a practical approach to assist teachers in evaluating the question-posing ability of all learners. To cope with this problem, the present study develops an approach to measure the question-posing ability of individual students in a web-based collaborative learning. As a result, the proposed approach could not only improve the learning performance of individual students, but advance students’ attitudes towards question-posing learning activity in a web-based collaborative learning environment.