Indian Journal of Science and Technology
DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2017/v10i48/120769
Year: 2017, Volume: 10, Issue: 48, Pages: 1-7
Original Article
Rajermani Thinakaran1,2, Rosmah Ali1 , Morina Abdullah1 , Kamilah Radin Salim1 and Suraya Yaacob1
1Advanced Informatics School, UTM Razak School, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia International Campus, Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra, 54100, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] 2Department of Computing, Faculty of Science and Technology, Nilai University, Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
Motivation is a key success factor in learning programming. However, motivation aspect has not been fully addressed in Programming Tutoring System. This paper proposed a Motivation Assessment Model for Programming Tutoring System. The aim is to detect and measure students’ motivation level so that the tutoring system can deliver the tutorial materials accordingly, much like a human tutor does. In this study, various motivation factors, variables and techniques for measuring students’ motivation in tutoring system were investigated. Based on self-efficacy theory, Effort, Choice of Activities, Performance and Persistence were proposed as motivation factors. Parameter(s) for each factor and Fuzzy Logic as a prediction technique were also discussed. As for future work, the proposed model will be implemented in Java platform and tested on programming students using Moodle.
Keywords: Fuzzy Logic, Motivation, Motivation Assessment Model, Programming Tutoring System, Self-Efficacy Section
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