Project preferences poll (CS 263 (ESD), Spring 2020)

Project preferences poll

CS 263 (ESD), Spring 2020

Please indicate your preferences among the project ideas and aspects below, rating as many project areas and aspects as you can.
Note: Multiple items may receive the same rating.

Your name:

The Music Quiz

Issue areas:

Student learning
For example: Are there accessibility aspects of the app that favor one group over another? What is the effect on student learning at times when the app is not operating correctly, perhaps for only some students?

Education research tool
One goal for this locally developed app is to support Prof. Epstein’s research into student learning in Music. For example, one type of question might be more effective than another. How can such research be carried out ethically?

Student developers
During terms where the Quiz Game is required for a course, HiPerCiC developers charged with keeping the app working have some responsibility for the learning experiences of students in that course. What practices of software development support are needed to serve those students? What expectations of student HiPerCiC team members are appropriate if a breakdown occurs?

Comments?

DegreePath

Issue areas:

Students
Does DegreePath improve students’ quality of life with respect to requirements? What are the risks and benefits of students beta-testing this software?

Advisors
Does DegreePath have any ethical effect on advising? Does it make things easier or harder (or neither) for faculty and staff in the advising system?

Registrar’s office
How does DegreePath affect the work of the Registrar’s Office from an ethical perspective? What laws and regulations are relevant, and what risks may there be?

Comments?

StoGrade

Issue areas:

Graders
How does the current StoGrade affect a grader’s job, from an ethics viewpoint? What potential ethical pitfalls are there for graders? Are there software changes that would improve ethical issues that may be discovered?

Privacy and data integrity
What laws and rules about student information are relevant to automated grading with StoGrade, and what student-worker practices would respect them? What risks of data errors may there be between StoGrade grading results and reporting of grades and feedback, and how might such risks be avoided?

Comments?

Other - Write-in preference(s).
For example, you might propose a different issue area for one of the projects above. Enter details in the box below.

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Any other comments?