Monday Poster Session

69185 | Development of a Tool to Analyze Source Code

Submitted by Novice Programmers and Provide Learning Support Feedback with Comments

Tatsuyuki Takano, Kanto Gakuin University, Japan

Osamu Miyakawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

Takashi Kohama, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

Novice students make a variety of mistakes in the process of learning computer programming. In a course with more than 100 students, it is difficult to provide accurate and detailed feedback to students on errors in the source code submitted for their assignments. For this reason, we have created a source code analyzer and developed a tool to provide detailed feedback to each student.

This tool analyzes submitted Java source code and identifies misspelled class and method names. It then performs unit tests with those misspelled class and method names.

From the results, the tool generates comments such as "Let's check the method name" or "Let's check the execution result".

The tool could generate an average of more than 8,000 characters in Japanese comments per assignment in an actual programming lecture with more than 100 students.

In this study, we report on the developed tool, its adaptation to an existing LMS, and its evaluation.

Educational Policy, Leadership, Management & Administration

67759 | Facing Up to the Importance of Societal Impact of University

Hsiuhsi Liu, National Academy For Educational Research, Taiwan

Discussions about the societal impact of universities are now commonplace around the world, notably in the UK, Australia and the US, but also Latin America. In most Asian countries, however, the emergence of these debates has been more gradual and fragmented. The educational policies of Taiwanese government supporting universities’ broader societal role were framed for a long time in purely economic terms, focusing on innovation, technology transfer and cooperation with industry.

After the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic in early 2020, it has had a huge impact on political, economic, and social development in global scale. At this critical moment of survival, the government and the private sector begin to reflect: after the government provides funds for academia to conduct research, what impact can it have on people’s welfare in addition to accumulating more academic papers? The above question have led to emphasize on the societal impact of university.

Based on this, this research used document analysis to collect scholars’ discourses regarding the societal impact of university from various countries. Besides, semi-structured interviews were conducted among 14 scholars to collect their viewpoints on the issue; the collected responses were compiled and analyzed. Accordingly, suggestions for strategies were proposed to improve assessment mechanism of the Taiwanese projects related to the societal impact of university.

68206

| A Study of Developing an Effective Cognitive Coaching Program for Mentor Principals: Application of GROW Models

Hsin-Chih Lin, University of Taipei, Taiwan

Mentors and their cognitive coaching have been proven effective in many educational researches, especially for novice school principals. However, the researches about how to train mentor principals are still few. Therefore, the main purpose of this research is to apply the GROW model of cognitive coaching for designing and developing the training program for mentor principals. After a year of design, development and practice, the preliminary research findings are the four-stage training effective model for mentors’ cognitive coaching: (1) to guide mentor principals to shape consensus and confirm the training goals, and familiarize them with GROW model relevant questioning and dialogue skills; (2) to guide the mentor principals to transform situational problems based on past coaching experience, mainly to facilitate the them reflect on his own dialogue skills and clarify possible difficulties; (3) to guide the mentor principals to think about the possible topics of conversation between different background novice principals, and then discuss with each other, form a consensus and classify them; (4) to facilitate the mentor principals to complete their own cases, based on the real experience of coaching. After finishing the cases, they must practice the case dialogue with each other. So far, 12 mentor principals have completed the 4-stage program above and now still in their 2-year process of coaching target 24 novice principals. And all the feedbacks corrected from every-month focus group interviews are highly positive and praised.

68877 | A Study on the Evaluation Utilization and Evaluation Benefits of Technical High Schools in Taiwan

Tsai-Feng Cheng, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan

Shu-Fen Tseng, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan

In addition to the presentation of the final results of evaluation, the use of evaluation can help guide the performance of evaluation functions, that is, the display of evaluation benefits. Therefore, how to effectively use the educational value generated in the overall process of evaluation to promote the improvement of evaluation benefits is one of the important issues of evaluation research. However, there is a lack of research in this area at present, and further analysis is still needed.

The main purposes of this study are: to explore the related theories and researches on evaluation utilization and evaluation benefits, to understand the current situation of these two variables, and to analyze the differences of the perceptions of technical high school educators with different background variables on these two research variables.

To achieve this purpose, this study adopts the questionnaire method, based on relevant literature and research, to understand the theoretical connotation of evaluation utilization, including evaluation process utilization and evaluation result utilization, and evaluation benefits, empirical research and measurement indicators to compile the study tool. Then, the purposive sampling, based on the educators of technical high schools in Taiwan, are about 800 people, including principals and teachers. The main statistical methods used in this study are: descriptive statistical analysis and single factor analysis of variance, including dependent samples and independent samples.