Abstract
There are more and more universities in China accepting international students from various countries. These students with international background and highly diversified preferences in learning have presented challenges for educators in universities. Using the help of web-based learning platform and being guided in self-regulated study groups, students are now given much more alternatives in terms of learning and communicating. This paper introduces the design of a comprehensive system of teaching evaluating the students of one economic course. The Multi-Facet Rasch Model was applied to measure the effectiveness of such evaluation system.
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Data provided by the Dean’s office of International School, Jinan University.
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M. Linacre’s tutorial for Many-facet Rasch Measurements: Facets (1/2012 version).
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Assuming the chances of success in the course to be P ni, then the log-odd of 0.64 unit would mean for the average-ability student, the chance of passing the course is about 0.65.
\( \begin{aligned} \ln (P_{\text{ni}} /1 - P_{\text{ni}} ) & = 0.64 \\ e^{0.64} & = P_{\text{ni}} /1 - P_{\text{ni}} \\ P_{\text{ni}} & = e^{0.64} /(1 + e^{0.64} ) = 0.6546 \\ \end{aligned} \)
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Liu, Y. (2015). Measuring the Effectiveness of Evaluation Processes for Diversified Undergraduate Students with Self-regulated Study—A Case Study in International School of Jinan University. In: Zhang, Q., Yang, H. (eds) Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS) 2014 Conference Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47490-7_16
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