Title
Mechanix: A Sketch-Based Tutoring and Grading System for Free-Body Diagrams.
Abstract
Introductory engineering courses within large universities,often have annual enrollments that can reach up to a thousand students. In this article, we introduce Mechanix, a sketch-based deployed tutoring system for engineering students enrolled in statics courses. Our system not only allows students to enter planar truss and free- body diagrams into the system, just as they would with pencil and paper, but our system also checks the student's work against a hand-drawn answer entered by the instructor, and then returns immediate and detailed feedback to the student. Students are allowed to correct any errors in their work and resubmit until the entire content is correct and thus all of the objectives are learned. Since Mechanix facilitates the grading and feedback processes, instructors are now able to assign more free-response questions, increasing teacher's knowledge of student comprehension. Furthermore, the iterative correction process allows students to learn during a test, rather than simply display memorized information.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1609/aimag.v34i1.2437
AI MAGAZINE
Field
DocType
Volume
Free body diagram,Grading (education),Simulation,Computer science,Differentiated instruction,Artificial intelligence,Mathematics education,Pencil (mathematics),Comprehension,Sketch,Multiple choice
Journal
34
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0738-4602
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stephanie Valentine1353.31
Francisco Vides2161.21
George Lucchese3253.51
David Turner410.39
Hong-hoe Kim5252.16
Wenzhe Li6245.60
Julie Linsey75512.39
Tracy Hammond844343.21