Experiences with a Pragmatic Student Attendance Management Scheme
摘要
In some educational contexts it is necessary to record student attendance, yet the technical infrastructures for registration management may not be available. The goal of this work was to develop a tool to reduce the manual registration management effort. The tool was iteratively developed and tested in six courses over a period of four years. Analyses which were found to be particularly useful included attendance status overviews, individual attendance timelines, and anomalous registrations. The reports generated by the tool can be used to facilitate the formative dialogue between the students and the teacher during the learning process. The proposed scheme is different from most of the previous approaches in that it requires minimal setup and no dedicated infrastructure.