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Comparing the Use of Self and Peer Assessment: A Case Study in a Statistics Course

  • Han, Kyung-Soo;Mun, Gil-Seong;Ahn, Jeong-Yong
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.979-987
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    • 2009
  • In this study, we compare the assessments made by self, peer and instructor in a statistics course. The goal is to investigate the following two questions: (1) Is it reasonable or fair to expect students to be responsible for assessing the work of their colleagues and themselves? (2) What are students' opinions about the learning effect after they participate in the assessment process? As part of the study investigating these questions, we designed a prototype for a Web-based assessment tool and a procedure to apply the assessment techniques in a statistics course. In addition, we collected and analyzed the data produced in the assessment processes from students and the instructor. The analysis results are summarized as follows: First, self assessment was not accord with instructor assessment, but peer assessment was similar to the assessment by instructor. This result reflected that it is reasonable or fair to expect students to be responsible for assessing the work of their colleagues. Second, peer assessment of their colleagues successfully helped students increase their understanding of the course, and the students increased their skills in the actual assessment process by assessing the work of their colleagues. Finally, many students indicated a high interest level on the assessments.

Review on the Application of Statistical Methods to Maritime Traffic Safety Assessment

  • Gong, In-Young
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • v.1
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    • pp.35-40
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    • 2006
  • For the maritime traffic safety assessment of vessels navigating in harbor or fairway, simulation techniques by using shiphandling simulator system have been traditionally used. When designing the simulation experiments and when analyzing the simulation results, however, there has been a little systematic method. Ship-handling simulations can be regarded as a kind of statistical experiment by using ship-handling simulator system, which means that shiphandling simulation conditions should be designed statistically and that the simulation results should be statistically analyzed as well. For the safe and economic design of harbor and fairway, reasonable decisions based upon the scientific analysis of shiphandling simulation results are indispensable. In this paper, various statistical methods, such as Bayes theorem, statistical hypothesis testing, and probability distributions, are reviewed with a view to application to maritime traffic safety assessment. It is expected that more reasonable decisions on harbor and fairway design can be made from shiphandlers' view point by using statistical methods.

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The study for the applications of the measurement system assessment in statistical process control (통계적 공정관리 추진시 측정시스템 평가의 실시방법에 관한 연구)

  • 민철희;백재욱
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.13-28
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    • 1998
  • Corrent measurement system assessment is crucial in helping improve process or quality. In this article, we would like to apply several methods of measurement system assessment in statistical process control. Specifically, focus is on accuracy, precision (both repeatability and reproducibility included), and stability of the measurement process.

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A Case Study on the Reliability Assessment of Stockpile Ammunition (저장탄약의 품목별 신뢰도평가 사례 연구)

  • Yoon, Keun-Sig;Lee, Jong-Chan
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.40 no.3
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    • pp.259-269
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    • 2012
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to find out that the statistical method of stockpile reliability of ammunition by items can be applied to the reliability assessment of stockpile ammunition. Methods: We reviewed the statistical method of stockpile reliability of ammunition by items and verified the possibility of its application by case study. Results: We found that the statistical method of stockpile reliability of ammunition by items is very useful and effective to present the reliability of ammunition based on each item and to predict the change of the reliability in the future. The reliability of proximity fuse was about 94.5% and was influenced by manufacture's year and the difference between lot and lot more than storage period. Conclusion: The statistical method of stockpile reliability of ammunition by items can be applied to the reliability assessment of various stockpile ammunitions such as ammunition for mortar and canon.

Development of Automatic Subjective Assessment System Using Adjectives (형용사를 이용한 자동 주관적 평가 시스템의 개발)

  • Min, Byeong-Un;Min, Byeong-Chan;Jeong, Sun-Cheol;Kim, Cheol-Jung
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2003
  • The objective of this research is the development of the Automatic Subjective Assessment System (ASAS). The proposed subjective assessment system is designed to evaluate human emotion and sensibility (or "gamsung" in Korean terminology) with subjective responses of volunteers about the experiment of emotion and sensibility. Once volunteers enter their subjective responses about the experiment into the developed system, the proposed system can automatically generate statistical results of human emotion and sensibility using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Then, the system stores the statistical results in the database which will be open to public through internet. The proposed system will be integrated into the universal" gamsung" assessment system for evaluation of human emotion and sensibility.

Statistical Estimation of Specified Concrete Strength by Applying Non-Destructive Test Data (비파괴시험 자료를 적용한 콘크리트 기준강도의 통계적 추정)

  • Paik, Inyeol
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.52-59
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    • 2015
  • The aim of the paper is to introduce the statistical definition of the specified compressive strength of the concrete to be used for safety evaluation of the existing structure in domestic practice and to present the practical method to obtain the specified strength by utilizing the non-destructive test data as well as the limited number of core test data. The statistical definition of the specified compressive strength of concrete in the design codes is reviewed and the consistent formulations to statistically estimate the specified strength for assessment are described. In order to prevent estimating an unrealistically small value of the specified strength due to limited number of data, it is proposed that the information from the non-destructive test data is combined to that of the minimum core test data. The the sample mean, standard deviation and total number of concrete test are obtained from combined test data. The proposed procedures are applied to an example test data composed of the artificial numerical values and the actual evaluation data collected from the bridge assessment reports. The calculation results show that the proposed statistical estimation procedures yield reasonable values of the specified strength for assessment by applying the non-destructive test data in addition to the limited number of core test data.

A Note on the Use of Peer Assessment to Improve Pupil's Performance

  • Lee, Kyung-Koo;Mun, Gil-Seong;Ahn, Jeong-Yong
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.443-450
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    • 2008
  • Peer assessment is the process of assessment of students by other students and one form of innovative assessment. It actively involves students in the assessment process and is generally agreed that such involvement enhances the quality and effectiveness of the learning process, since assessing something and benchmarking process is a powerful aid to mastering it themselves. It is more effective on the hard courses for them to understand. In this article we present a peer assessment technique which was applied to students enrolled in a mathematical statistics course and a historical course. In order to measure the effectiveness of the technique, students had to evaluate their colleagues based on predefined criteria and a comparison is presented between the instructor assessments and the peer assessment.

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Comparative Study of Probabilistic Ecological Risk Assessment (PERA) used in Developed Countries and Proposed PERA approach for Korean Water Environment (확률생태위해성평가(PERA) 선진국 사례분석 및 국내수계에 적합한 PERA 기법 제안)

  • An, Youn-Joo;Nam, Sun-Hwa;Lee, Woo-Mi
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.494-501
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    • 2009
  • Probabilistic Ecological risk assessment (PERA) is extensive approach to qualify and quantify risk on the multi species based on species sensitivity distribution (SSD). As a while, deterministic ecological risk assessment (DERA) considers the comparison of predicted no-effect concentration (PNEC) and predicted exposure concentration (PEC). DERA is used to determine if there is potential risk or no risk, and it doesn't consider the nature variability and the species sensitivity. But PERA can be more realistic and reasonable approach to estimate likelihood or risk. In this study, we compared PERA used in developed countries, and proposed PERA applicable for the Korean water environment. Taxonomic groups were classified as "class" level including Actinopterygill, Branchiopoda, Chlorophyceae, Maxillapoda, Insects, Bivalvia, Gastropoda, Secernentea, Polychaeta, Monocotyldoneae, and Chanophyceae in this study. Statistical extrapolation method (SEM), statistical extrapolation method $_{acutechronicratio}$ ($SEM_{ACR}$) and assessment factor method (AFM) were used to calculate the ecological protective concentration based on qualitative and quantitative levels of taxonomic toxicity data. This study would be useful to establish the PERA for the protection of aquatic ecosystem in Korea.

Developing the Quality Assessment Indicators for the National Processing Statistics of Korea

  • Kim, Soo-Taek;Jeong, Ki-Ho;Kim, Seol-Hee
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.649-665
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    • 2007
  • The improvement of quality is a continuous process and one of the main objectives of the Statistical Strategy launched by the Korea National Statistical Office (KNSO) is the enhancement of the quality of Korea national statistics. In this paper, we define the processing statistic, classify the Korea national processing statistics, and develop the quality indicators and check list for assessing the national processing statistics of Korea. During its development, the indicators has been discussed with the processing statistic managers of the KNSO and the checklist tested in a pilot study covering a variety of processing statistic areas.

Cash flow Forecasting in Construction Industry Using Soft Computing Approach

  • Kumar, V.S.S.;Venugopal, M.;Vikram, B.
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2013.01a
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    • pp.502-506
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    • 2013
  • The cash flow forecasting is normally done by contractors in construction industry at early stages of the project for contractual decisions. The decision making in such situations involve uncertainty about future cash flows and assessment of working capital requirements gains more importance in projects constrained by cash. The traditional approach to assess the working capital requirements is deterministic in and neglects the uncertainty. This paper presents an alternate approach to assessment of working capital requirements for contractor based on fuzzy set theory by considering the uncertainty and ambiguity involved at payment periods. Statistical methods are used to deal with the uncertainty for working capital curves. Membership functions of the fuzzy sets are developed based on these statistical measures. Advantage of fuzzy peak working capital requirements is demonstrated using peak working capital requirements curves. Fuzzy peak working capital requirements curves are compared with deterministic curves and the results are analyzed. Fuzzy weighted average methodology is proposed for the assessment of peak working capital requirements.

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