On the Development of Formative Tests to Improve Teaching Conceptual Business Process Modeling to Novice Higher Education Learners

摘要

Modeling techniques and languages to support software development, such as BPMN or UML are essential in the educational fields of information systems, and software engineering [1, 2]. Proficient conceptual modeling often implies coping with versatility in open-ended problems, making it challenging for novice modelers. Despite the increased attention in the literature, teaching conceptual modeling often still lacks a structured method and lecturers tend to develop their own experience-based approaches [1,3,4]. Tool support for syntactical and certain pragmatic errors exist, but do not address semantic errors, nor are embedded in a learning system. In the presented project, we address these gaps for process modelling by developing an evidence-based and systematic teaching approach for BPMN that incorporates an adaptive learning system with formative assessments, using appropriate educational tools.