Monitoring of Learners’ Activities in Software Structure Design Exercises

Abstract

Learners acquire modeling skills from software design exercises using UML class diagrams by recognizing and solving errors by comparing their models with the requirement specifications. Teachers and teaching assistants must identify learners' impasse according to the learners’ modeling activities and provide them appropriate feedback when they cannot solve their impasse. In this study, we constructed a system to observe learners' modeling activities during exercises. In an experiment, we also collected modeling activity data from learners and analyzed the patterns identifying learners' impasse based on their activities.