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Volume Two - Academic Conferences

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Fatemeh Orooji et al.<br />

lower and upper levels that should be assigned below the label of "Assign numbers to dimensions" in<br />

0. It also shows that different colors have been proposed for different margins to make them more<br />

visually understandable. Second, each modeler may either represent its dimensions independently or<br />

organize them as some opposite dimensions. Some questionnaires like Felder-Silverman LS have<br />

dimensions that are two by two against each other and must be placed faced by. In this situations,<br />

opposite dimensions will be represented as two ends of one axis, shown in 0as "Opposite<br />

Dimensions".<br />

Figure 6: Phase 4: determine representation of modeler report<br />

4.2 System management tools<br />

Proposed unified LS modeling system provides some valuable feasibilities enabling administrators<br />

and designers to introduce a new questionnaire as well as altering and removing available modelers.<br />

It is possible to define a new questionnaire via the predesigned phases explained before or edit<br />

desired features of an available modeler easily. In addition, administrator receives some management<br />

specific reports consist of the last version of all activities and the number of users participated, their<br />

LSs reports, group LS reports and the average scores of each group.<br />

4.3 System reports<br />

Perhaps the most important outcome of this study is that it provides an opportunity for a unified<br />

information representation despite the differences between modelers. When learner completes a<br />

questionnaire, system analyzes his answers and makes a graphical report representing achieved<br />

results in an understandable manner. Our integrated environment reports the name of user’s LSs and<br />

his/her scores in a similar manner. In addition, system provides some recommendations based on<br />

some given instructional rules due to learner recognized model. To motivate students, we consider<br />

each learner situation among the others and compare their learning styles to the average of their<br />

community. There are also some other possibilities to compare learners recognized styles against<br />

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