Learning from Peer Mistakes: Collaborative UML-Based ITS with Peer Feedback Evaluation

Abstract

Collaborative Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) use peer tutor assessment to give feedback to students in solving problems. Through this feedback, the students reflect on their thinking and try to improve it when they get similar questions. The accuracy of the feedback given by the peers is important because this helps students to improve their learning skills. If the student acting as a peer tutor is unclear about the topic, then they will probably provide incorrect feedback. There have been very few attempts in the literature that provide limited support to improve the accuracy and relevancy of peer feedback. This paper presents a collaborative ITS to teach Unified Modeling Language (UML), which is designed in such a way that it can detect erroneous feedback before it is delivered to the student. The evaluations conducted in this study indicate that receiving and sending incorrect feedback have negative impact on students’ learning skills. Furthermore, the results also show that the experimental group with peer feedback evaluation has significant learning gains compared to the control group.

Keywords

• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• UML class diagrams
• peer feedback evaluation
• domain learning