Think Before You Answer : Fostering Deep Thinking among Students Through Moodle's Certainty-based Marking (CBM)

The quality of students' grasp of what they have learned in class is unclear to the instructors in multiple-choice assessments. Multiple-choice assessments do not allow students to elaborate on their answer arguments because they are evaluated simply on the answers they have supplied. The student’s level of understanding, on the other hand, is unknown to them. We used Moodle's certainty-based marking (CBM) to encourage students to think deeply before settling on their final answers to these tests and quizzes. This CBM method feedback will reveal whether the students are overconfident in their knowledge. CBM assigns weightage to correct and incorrect responses, as well as certainty levels that students must select before settling on their final answers. After using this method in quizzes and multiple-choice assessments, students are more in tune with their knowledge levels, and they are aware of the learning units that they need to improve in their courses. Through this study, both students and instructors will be able to have the benefits to assess the class knowledge level on units and topics learned in class

Design of Stroke Rehabilitation Robots

One of the most frequent cause of limb disabilities worldwide is stroke. In order to achieve high recoverability, stroke patients require repetitive and consistent rehabilitation treatment. However, the increasing number of stroke patients with limited number of therapists and transportation problem among patients from rural places limit the accessibility to have better treatment. Hence, it is important to have a Rehabilitation Robot Devices (RRDs) to minimize the problems. This research is aimed to design an upper limb rehabilitation robot device that is portable and adjustable. In order to ensure that the robot arm design achieve the desired movement, CATIA V5R22 was used to simulate the design with a human builder. Motion analysis in SolidWork 2018 was used to investigate the angular displacement of the robot arm link. The simulation showed that, the robot arm design corresponds with the Malaysian anthropometry dimensions. The motion analysis showed that, the movement pattern of the robot arm achieved the desired angle of movement during rehabilitation process with the wrist extension recorded the highest time cycle which is 16 seconds for 45 degrees of extension

The integrated method for a systematic approach in developing precision farming software product line architecture

Software complexity has always been an issue in software development, especially for larger system with innovative functionalities. One solution to reduce the problem of software complexity is by applying software reuse method. Nowadays, Software Product Line is an emerging paradigm for handling software development for software reuse. Software Product Line usually associated with using feature-oriented development methods. Although there are many methods that existed for developing Software Product Line, there are no concrete descriptions on systematic processes that the methods used. Therefore, in this research, an integration of three feature-oriented Software Product Line methods is proposed for developing software architecture. The methods are Feature-Oriented Domain Analysis (FODA), Feature-Architecture Mapping (FArM), and Feature Dependency Analysis (FDA). The case study selected for this research is Precision Farming application based on Wireless Sensor Network. The proposed integrated method provides systematic processes with detailed guidelines for designing software architecture. The software architecture for the case study is developed using the proposed integrated method. The proposed integrated method is evaluated with the initial FArM and has higher benefits because the integrated method includes domain analysis and enhanced mechanism for handling feature dependencies. When compared to Feature-Oriented Reuse Method (FORM), there are fewer differences, but the integrated method provides stronger mapping from features to architectures because it uses FArM method

IMPROVING SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROGRAMME FROM STUDENTS' PERCEPTION

Software Engineering is one the programme under Bachelor of Computer Science offered by Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, UNIMAS. The MQA has suggested the programme to change the degree to Bachelor of Software Engineering according to the Programme Standards by MQA