Hmmm..., I am a college student and I read about this new idea of making contests instead of exams!
If you are a professor or any type of teacher you should really consider this! I would want my teachers to, however they are not really big fans of something new :/
Here is some general information about the company that does it all :) I am quite impressed!
TunedIT - Contest in place of exam
Traditional system of evaluation of credited tasks for students will soon become outdated. TunedIT created the contest system and platform, which enables students getting credits just from home. The new system will be beneficial both for students and for professors.
It seems that getting credits for laboratory classes does not need to be boring again. Students of computer science have to solve several assignments in their laboratory classes, which are then taken into account by their tutors when giving final grades. Usually, a student, in order to get credit has to write a program or elaborate an algorithm. It applies in particular to such lessons as "Artificial Intelligence", "data mining" or "self-learning systems". Generally, in the framework of these subjects, a lecturer requires from his or her students to work out an algorithm for a given problem (data set).
Most frequently, in Polish universities, as far as computer science students are concerned, they have approximately one month to prepare such algorithm. When they finish, they send it to professor in charge of laboratory classes for evaluation.
Competitions organized on TunedIT platform constitute an alternative for students' vis-à-vis traditional way of crediting. These competitions encompass identical assignments but the participants send their solutions over internet to special Web page established for the needs of contest. Their works are immediately tested and automatically evaluated. What even more important, every student can see his or her result, instantly compare a quality of the solution with others and still have a chance for improvement. Such model of crediting may become an option for student, thus eliminating the traditional one. From didactic point of view, contests organized by TunedIT may have substantial influence upon development of students' skills because they will force the participants to actively search for the best possible solution and to learn from one's own mistakes.
Still, the TunedIT platform specializing, among others, in organization of competitions for computer science students, has in fact more functionalities. In fact, one can arrange any type of competition with a use of this particular solution. - We are able to organize practically any type of data mining assignments - says Marcin Wojnarski, the founder of TunedIT- Contest platform TunedIT is very comprehensive and gives this opportunity to organize competitions in many different fields. In fact, we can trigger on it all kinds of assignments in 'data mining', but also in other fields, like data compression.
The very first competition for students to get credits for a given assignment was arranged in May 2009. This contest was organized for the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics in the University of Warsaw. Use of this platform for organization of contests for students has a lot of advantages, and university circles in Poland and abroad have become more and more interested in this very solution.
TunedIT is an international service. Our contest platform may be used in any place of the world: USA, Germany, Great Britain, not excluding even more exotic places where many young IT specialists are educated, like in India and China. - explains Wojnarski - Our users come from a dozen of countries, among others from the USA, England, India, China, Canada, Australia, Germany, New Zealand, Iran and Japan. In the scientific rivalry organized recently in TunedIT, which terminated in the end of February, triumphed the teams from China, Australia, Croatia and Japan.
One of the trumps of TunedIT platform is a complete automation of assignment evaluation system that saves time for both students and teachers. TunedIT platform offers large-scale integration between its users what contributes to competition in pursuance of the best results. Founders of this service assure that only the users have access to contest results. Data is protected by access code known solely to the participants. Hence, the inventors of TunedIT platform established the system, which saves time and provides for completely objective evaluation of tasks, thus producing fair results. These advantages may surely stimulate greater interest in this platform not only in Poland but also in the world.
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Hope you enjoy studying. And then after you say that smile.
Better understanding and better grades.
By studying harder