Instructional object management device, instructional object management method, and program

Abstract

To provide an instruction subject management device capable of conveying the degree of urgency of an instruction subject to an instructor. [Solution] The system includes a pressure calculation unit that acquires training objects assigned training areas and training levels, and calculates the pressure of training objects for each category based on the total estimated work amount A for each category of training objects divided by training area and training level, and the number C of instructors whose training areas and training levels match the training objects for each category, and a transmission unit that transmits the calculated pressure to an instructor terminal, which is a terminal managed by an instructor who has the corresponding training area and training level.

Description

[Technical field]

[0001] The present disclosure relates to an instruction object management device, an instruction object management method, and a program for informing an instructor of the degree of urgency of an instruction object. [Background technology]

[0002] In conventional answer correction and grading work, there are known a push type distribution format in which an administrator distributes answer sheets to the person who will be correcting or grading the sheets (hereinafter referred to as the instructor), and a pull type distribution format in which the instructor goes to a portal site to collect the answer sheets. For example, Patent Document 1 is an example of a conventional technology for pull type distribution. The answer data distribution server in Patent Document 1 includes an answer data acquisition unit that acquires a problem ID, a field tag, a solution tag, and answer data, an answer data sorting unit that refers to a corrector database that stores the problem ID, field tag, and solution tag of answer data corrected by a corrector in the past for each corrector, and rearranges multiple answer data so that answer data that matches the problem ID, field tag, and solution tag of answer data corrected by the corrector in the past is placed in a position that is easy for the corrector to view, and a sorted answer data sending unit that sends the rearranged answer data to the corrector terminal, which is the terminal of the corrector.

[0003] According to the answer data distribution server of Patent Document 1, answer data according to the ability and needs of the corrector can be appropriately distributed to the corrector. [Prior art documents] [Patent documents]

[0004] [Patent Document 1] JP 2022-49314 A Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0005] In the case of PULL-type distribution, if there are no teaching materials when the instructor accesses the portal site, the instructor will lose motivation to access the portal site. As a result, the instructor's contract may be terminated or the instructor may not be available when there are teaching materials, resulting in a decrease in the total amount of pulled teaching materials and the instructor being unable to provide teaching materials within the predetermined time.

[0006] Therefore, an object of the present disclosure is to provide an instruction object management device that can convey the degree of urgency of an instruction object to an instructor. [Means for solving the problem]

[0007] The teaching object management device of the present disclosure includes a urgency calculation unit and a transmission unit.

[0008] The urgency calculation unit acquires the instruction objects to which the instruction areas and instruction levels are assigned, and calculates the urgency of the instruction objects for each division based on the total estimated work amount A for each division of the instruction objects divided for each instruction area and instruction level, and the number C of instructors whose instruction areas and instruction levels match the instruction objects for each division. The transmission unit transmits the calculated urgency to an instructor terminal, which is a terminal managed by an instructor whose corresponding instruction area and instruction level match. Effect of the Invention

[0009] According to the teaching object management device of the present disclosure, the degree of urgency of a teaching object can be communicated to an instructor. [Brief description of the drawings]

[0010] [Figure 1] FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the functional configuration of the instruction object management device according to the first embodiment. [Diagram 2] 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the instruction object management device of the first embodiment. [Diagram 3] FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of calculating the degree of pressure when the unit of the estimated workload is time. [Figure 4] FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of icons representing the degree of urgency according to their size. [Diagram 5] FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing the functional configuration of an instruction object management device according to a second embodiment. [Figure 6] 10 is a flowchart showing the operation of the instruction object management device of the second embodiment. [Figure 7] A diagram showing an example of calculating the degree of urgency when the unit of expected workload is the number of answers. [Figure 8] FIG. 13 is a diagram showing Example 1 of recalculation of the congestion level when the congestion level exceeds a threshold value. [Figure 9] FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing the functional configuration of an instruction object management device according to a third embodiment. [Figure 10] 11 is a flowchart showing the operation of the instruction object management device of the third embodiment. [Figure 11] FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a second example of recalculating the congestion level when the congestion level exceeds a threshold value. [Figure 12] FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the functional configuration of a computer. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

[0011] Hereinafter, embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail. Note that components having the same functions are given the same reference numbers and redundant description will be omitted. EXAMPLES

[0012] The functional configuration of the training object management device 1 of the first embodiment will be described below with reference to Fig. 1. As shown in the figure, the training object management device 1 of the present embodiment includes a training object database 1A, an instructor database 1B, a tightness calculation unit 11, and a transmission unit 12. The training object management device 1 can communicate with an instructor terminal 2 managed by each instructor. The training object database 1A stores training objects to which a training area and a training level are assigned. The operation of each component will be described below with reference to Fig. 2.

[0013] The urgency calculation unit 11 acquires training objects to which training areas and training levels have been assigned, and calculates the urgency of the training objects for each category based on the total estimated workload A for each category of training objects divided by training area and training level, the estimated workload B per instructor, and the number C of instructors whose training areas and training levels match the training objects for each category (S11).

[0014] The teaching area is the learning area to which the teaching material belongs, and may typically indicate a subject such as English, mathematics, etc. It may also indicate a unit such as "articles," "imperative sentences and exclamatory sentences," "addition and subtraction," and "letters and expressions."

[0015] A training level is a number or letter that indicates the difficulty of training given to a training object. A training level is also set for each training area for each instructor, and each instructor cannot teach an object that exceeds the training level set for him / herself. For example, the training level can be set to 10 levels, 5 levels, etc. In this specification, an example will be described in which the training level is set to 6 levels (1-6). In this specification, a higher training level number indicates a higher difficulty of training.

[0016] Examples of teaching materials divided by teaching area and teaching level include teaching area: English - teaching level: 6, teaching area: Japanese - teaching level: 3, teaching area: Mathematics - teaching level: 1, etc. Also, when teaching areas are set by unit, divisions such as teaching area: imperative sentences, exclamatory sentences - teaching level: 3 are also possible.

[0017] The total expected workload A is the amount expected as the total workload of the instructional items for each category, and is typically set on an hourly (hr) basis. As described below, the total expected workload A may be set from the total number of instructional items.

[0018] For example, as shown in Fig. 3, the expected workload can be set on a time (hr) basis. In the example shown in Fig. 3, the total expected workload is set for each teaching material in a certain subject, which is divided into teaching levels (1-6). For example, the total expected workload for teaching materials at teaching level 6 is 10 (hr), and the total expected workload for teaching materials at teaching level 5 is 20 (hr).

[0019] The total amount of expected work varies depending on the number of teaching materials (number of sheets) pooled in the portal site at that time. The total amount of expected work can be calculated as the product of the number of teaching materials and a predetermined coefficient (estimated amount of work per teaching material). The coefficient may be changed depending on the type of teaching material.

[0020] The estimated workload B per instructor is an estimated value of the workload per unit time per instructor. For example, it may be determined to indicate how many hours per instructor is expected to work per day, or how many hours per instructor is expected to work each time he or she visits the portal site. The estimated workload B per instructor may be set according to past performance. When averaging past performance, the average value of the past performance of instructors belonging to each training level may be used, or the average value of the past performance of all instructors may be used.

[0021] For example, in the example in Figure 3, the expected workload B per instructor is set based on the past average value of the instructors belonging to each training level. An instructor belonging to training level 6 works an average of 5.5 hours per day (or per visit) based on past performance values, so the expected workload B per instructor at training level 6 is set to 5.5. An instructor belonging to training level 5 works an average of 5 hours per day (or per visit) based on past performance values, so the expected workload B per instructor at training level 5 is set to 5.

[0022] The tightness calculation unit 11 can calculate the tightness as, for example, A÷B÷C×100. Note that, as described later, B may be omitted. In this case, the tightness calculation unit 11 may calculate the tightness as A÷C×100.

[0023] The transmitting unit 12 transmits the calculated strictness to the instructor terminal 2 which is a terminal managed by an instructor having the same corresponding training area and training level (S12).

[0024] At this time, the transmission unit 12 may transmit the degree of urgency as an icon display showing one of the stages divided according to the magnitude of the degree of urgency. FIG. 4 shows an example of the icon display. In the example shown in the figure, when the degree of urgency T is within the range of 0%≦T<25%, one mark on the answer sheet is displayed, when the degree of urgency T is within the range of 25%≦T<50%, two marks on the answer sheet are displayed, when the degree of urgency T is within the range of 50%≦T<75%, four marks on the answer sheet are displayed when the degree of urgency T is within the range of 75%≦T<100%, and five marks on the answer sheet are displayed when the degree of urgency T exceeds 100%. When an instructor sees the icon display, he or she can easily understand how urgency his or her teaching area-teaching level is currently, and can access the portal site at an appropriate time.

[0025] The instructor database 1B may store an evaluation level that evaluates an instructor's skill and an instruction speed that evaluates an instructor's instruction speed for each instruction area.

[0026] The transmission unit 12 may transmit the degree of urgency of the instruction object that has the same instruction area and the same instruction level and the instruction object that has the Nth (N is an integer of 1 or more) lower instruction level to the instructor terminal 2 managed by the instructor whose evaluation level exceeds a predetermined threshold. This allows the answer sheet to be preferentially distributed to the instructor with a high evaluation level.

[0027] In addition, when the degree of urgency is to be transmitted to a plurality of instructors, the transmitting unit 12 may transmit the degree of urgency preferentially to an instructor with a higher evaluation level among the plurality of instructors. This allows the answer sheet to be preferentially distributed to the instructor with the higher evaluation level.

[0028] In addition, when an instructor is a transmission target of the tightness of multiple training areas, the transmission unit 12 may preferentially transmit the tightness of the training area in which the instructor has a high training speed among the multiple training areas. This allows the instructor to preferentially distribute the training materials for the training areas in which the instructor can efficiently teach, thereby realizing efficient training. EXAMPLES

[0029] Although the teaching object management device 1 of the first embodiment can inform the instructor of the degree of urgency in the teaching area + teaching level that the instructor is responsible for, even if the degree of urgency varies between the teaching levels, the variation cannot be alleviated. Therefore, in the second embodiment, a teaching object management device that can alleviate the variation when the degree of urgency varies between the teaching levels is disclosed.

[0030] The functional configuration of the instruction object management device 3 of the second embodiment will be described below with reference to Fig. 5. As shown in the figure, the instruction object management device 3 of this embodiment includes an instruction object database 1A, an instructor database 1B, a urgency calculation unit 31, and a transmission unit 32. The instruction object management device 3 can communicate with an instructor terminal 2 managed by each instructor. The configuration other than the urgency calculation unit 31 and the transmission unit 32 is the same as in the first embodiment. The operation of the components different from those in the first embodiment will be described below with reference to Fig. 6.

[0031] When the urgency at a certain instruction level in a certain instruction area exceeds a predetermined threshold, the urgency calculation unit 31 changes some or all of the corresponding instruction object to an instruction level N levels (N is an integer equal to or greater than 1) above the instruction area and recalculates the urgency (S31).

[0032] The transmitting unit 32 transmits the recalculated strictness level to the corresponding instructor terminal (S32).

[0033] Figure 7 shows an example in which the total estimated workload A is taken as the number of answers, the estimated workload per instructor B is omitted, and the degree of urgency is calculated as A / C using the number of instructors at each teaching level C.

[0034] If the threshold value in step S31 is 100, the urgency exceeds the threshold value in the instruction levels 2 and 5 in FIG. 7. In this case, as shown in FIG. 8, the urgency calculation unit 31 changes some of the instruction objects of the instruction level 2 to an instruction level one level above the instruction area (in this example, N=1), and changes some of the instruction objects of the instruction level 5 to an instruction level one level above the instruction area, and recalculates the urgency. In the example of the figure, the instruction level of the instruction objects is changed until the urgency of the corresponding instruction objects becomes 100%. For example, 13 instruction objects of the instruction level 2 are moved to the instruction level 3 so that the urgency of the instruction level 2 becomes 100%. As a result, the urgency of the instruction level 2 becomes 40÷40×100=100%, and the urgency of the instruction level 3 becomes 18÷24×100=75%, and the variation in the urgency is mitigated compared to before the recalculation. Additionally, four instruction items from level 5 are moved to level 6 so that the pressure level at level 5 becomes 100%. As a result, the pressure level at level 5 becomes 6÷6×100=100%, and the pressure level at level 6 becomes 5÷3×100=167%, reducing the variation in pressure levels compared to before the recalculation.

[0035] In the above example, the instruction level of the instruction object was changed until the urgency of the corresponding instruction object reached 100%, but this is not limited to the above. The level of the instruction object may be changed so that the urgency of the instruction object at the source and the urgency of the instruction object at the destination are close to each other. For example, in the example of instruction levels 5 and 6 in FIG. 8, by moving three instruction objects of instruction level 5 to instruction level 6, the urgency of instruction level 5 may be (10-3)÷6×100=117%, and the urgency of instruction level 6 may be (1+3)÷3×100=133%.

[0036] According to the teaching object management device 3 of the second embodiment, the variation in the degree of urgency can be alleviated by recalculation, and therefore the bottleneck at the teaching level where the degree of urgency is high can be eliminated. EXAMPLES

[0037] In the third embodiment, a teaching object management device capable of reducing the variation in the degree of urgency between teaching levels in a manner different from that in the second embodiment is disclosed.

[0038] The functional configuration of the instruction object management device 5 of the third embodiment will be described below with reference to Fig. 9. As shown in the figure, the instruction object management device 5 of this embodiment includes an instruction object database 1A, an instructor database 1B, a urgency calculation unit 51, and a transmission unit 52. The instruction object management device 5 can communicate with an instructor terminal 2 managed by each instructor. The configuration other than the urgency calculation unit 51 and the transmission unit 52 is the same as in the first embodiment. The operation of the components different from those in the first embodiment will be described below with reference to Fig. 10.

[0039] When the degree of urgency at a certain teaching level in a certain teaching area exceeds a predetermined threshold, the urgency calculation unit 51 recalculates the urgency by setting A as the sum of the estimated work amount of the corresponding teaching object and the estimated work amount of teaching objects in the same teaching area and at a teaching level N (N is an integer equal to or greater than 1) higher than the corresponding teaching object, and by setting C as the sum of the number of instructors in the same teaching area and at the same teaching level as the corresponding teaching object and the number of instructors in the same teaching area and at a teaching level N (N is an integer equal to or greater than 1) higher than the corresponding teaching object (S51).

[0040] The transmission unit 52 transmits the recalculated tightness to the instructor terminal 2 managed by an instructor who has the same training area and training level as the corresponding training object, and to the instructor terminal 2 managed by an instructor who has the same training area and a training level N (N is an integer equal to or greater than 1) higher (S52).

[0041] When the degree of urgency is recalculated and transmitted as in this embodiment, it becomes necessary to set an instructor with a particularly high training level to be able to take charge of a training object with a training level N lower.

[0042] Fig. 11 is a diagram showing the result of recalculating the urgency in the example of Fig. 7 by the method of the third embodiment. As in the second embodiment, the threshold value in step S51 is set to 100. In this case, the urgency calculation unit 51 sets the sum of the estimated work amount 53 in the training level 2 where the urgency exceeds the threshold value (=100) and the estimated work amount 5 of the training object in the training level 3 which is 1 higher than the training level 2 (N=1) as A (=53+5=58), and recalculates the urgency by setting the sum of the number of instructors in the training level 2 (40 people) and the number of instructors in the training level 3 which is 1 higher than the training level 2 (24 people) as C (40+24=64), and obtains A÷C×100=58÷64×100=91%. The pressure calculation unit 51 also sets A (=10+1=11) as the sum of the estimated workload of 10 at training level 5, where the pressure exceeds the threshold value (=100), and the estimated workload of 1 at training level 6, which is 1 higher than training level 5 (N=1), and recalculates the pressure as C (=6+3=9) as the sum of the number of instructors at training level 5, 6, and the number of instructors at training level 6, which is 1 higher than training level 5, 3, and obtains A÷C×100=11÷9×100=122%.

[0043] According to the teaching object management device 5 of the third embodiment, the variation in the degree of urgency can be alleviated by recalculation, and therefore the bottleneck at the teaching level where the degree of urgency is high can be eliminated.

[0044] <Additional Notes> The functions performed by the components described herein may be implemented in circuitry or processing circuitry, including general purpose processors, application specific processors, integrated circuits, ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits), a CPU (a Central Processing Unit), conventional circuits, and / or combinations thereof, programmed to perform the functions described. Processors include transistors and other circuits and are considered to be circuitry or processing circuitry. A processor may be a programmed processor that executes a program stored in a memory.

[0045] In this specification, a circuitry, unit, or means is hardware that is programmed to realize or performs the described functions, which may be any hardware disclosed in this specification or any hardware known to be programmed to realize or perform the described functions.

[0046] If the hardware is a processor considered to be a type of circuitry, the circuitry, means, or unit is a combination of the hardware and software used to configure the hardware and / or processor.

[0047] The various processes described above can be implemented by loading a program for executing each step of the above method into the recording unit 10020 of the computer 10000 shown in FIG. 12 and operating the control unit 10010, input unit 10030, output unit 10040, etc.

[0048] The program describing the processing contents can be recorded on a computer-readable recording medium, which may be, for example, a magnetic recording device, an optical disk, a magneto-optical recording medium, a semiconductor memory, or any other type of recording medium.

[0049] The program may be distributed, for example, by selling, transferring, lending, etc. portable recording media such as DVDs and CD-ROMs on which the program is recorded. Furthermore, the program may be distributed by storing the program in a storage device of a server computer and transferring the program from the server computer to other computers via a network.

[0050] A computer that executes such a program, for example, first stores the program recorded on a portable recording medium or the program transferred from a server computer in its own storage device. Then, when executing a process, the computer reads the program stored in its own recording medium and executes a process according to the read program. As another execution form of the program, the computer may directly read the program from the portable recording medium and execute a process according to the program, or may execute a process according to the received program each time a program is transferred from the server computer to the computer. The server computer may not transfer the program to the computer, but may execute the process by a so-called ASP (Application Service Provider) type service that realizes the processing function only by issuing an execution instruction and obtaining the result. Furthermore, the server computer may execute the process of the terminal by using a so-called SaaS (Software as a Service) type service that allows a user to use a part of the server computer together with the program. The program in this embodiment includes information used for processing by an electronic computer that is equivalent to a program (data that is not a direct command to the computer but has a nature that specifies the processing of the computer, etc.).

[0051] In addition, in this embodiment, the present device is configured by executing a predetermined program on a computer, but at least a part of the processing contents may be realized by hardware.

Claims

1. a urgency calculation unit that acquires a training object to which a training area and a training level are assigned, and calculates a urgency of the training object for each division based on a total estimated work amount A for each division of the training object divided for each training area and each training level, and the number C of instructors whose training areas and training levels match the training object for each division; A transmission unit that transmits the calculated urgency to an instructor terminal that is a terminal managed by the instructor having the corresponding instruction area and the corresponding instruction level. Instruction material management device.

2. The teaching object management device according to claim 1, The urgency calculation unit is In addition to A and C, calculate the degree of urgency based on the estimated workload B per instructor. Instruction material management device.

3. The teaching object management device according to claim 1, The urgency calculation unit is The severity of the above A÷C×100 Calculate Instruction material management device.

4. The teaching object management device according to claim 2, The urgency calculation unit is The severity of the above A÷B÷C×100 Calculate Instruction material management device.

5. The teaching object management device according to claim 1, The transmission unit is The degree of urgency is transmitted as an icon display showing one of the stages classified according to the magnitude of the degree of urgency. Instruction material management device.

6. The teaching object management device according to claim 1, The urgency calculation unit is When the degree of urgency at a certain instruction level in a certain instruction area exceeds a predetermined threshold value, a part or all of the corresponding instruction object is changed to an instruction level N (N is an integer equal to or greater than 1) higher in the instruction area, and the degree of urgency is recalculated; The transmission unit is The recalculated urgency level is transmitted to the corresponding instructor terminal. Instruction material management device.

7. The teaching object management device according to claim 1, The urgency calculation unit is When the degree of urgency at a certain training level in a certain training area exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the degree of urgency is recalculated by setting A as the sum of the estimated work amount of the corresponding training object and the estimated work amount of the training object in the same training area as the corresponding training object and at a training level N (N is an integer of 1 or more) higher than the corresponding training object, and setting C as the sum of the number of instructors in the same training area as the corresponding training object and at the same training level as the corresponding training object, and the number of instructors in the same training area as the corresponding training object and at a training level N (N is an integer of 1 or more) higher than the corresponding training object, The transmission unit is The recalculated urgency is transmitted to the instructor terminal managed by the instructor having the same instruction area and instruction level as the corresponding instruction object, and to the instructor terminal managed by the instructor having the same instruction area and an instruction level that is N (N is an integer of 1 or more) higher. Instruction material management device.

8. The teaching object management device according to claim 1, An instructor database for storing an evaluation level based on which the skills of the instructors are evaluated; The transmission unit is The instructor terminal managed by the instructor whose evaluation level exceeds a predetermined threshold value transmits the degree of urgency of the instruction object whose instruction area matches the instruction level and whose instruction level matches the instruction level and the instruction object whose instruction level is N (N is an integer equal to or greater than 1) lower. Instruction material management device.

9. The teaching object management device according to claim 1, An instructor database for storing an evaluation level based on which the skills of the instructors are evaluated; The transmission unit is When the degree of urgency is to be transmitted to a plurality of instructors, the degree of urgency is preferentially transmitted to the instructor having the highest evaluation level among the plurality of instructors. Instruction material management device.

10. The teaching object management device according to claim 1, an instructor database that stores an instruction speed obtained by evaluating the instruction speed of the instructor for each of the instruction areas; The transmission unit is When the instructor is a transmission target of the urgency levels of a plurality of the training areas, the urgency level of the training area in which the instructor's training speed is high is preferentially transmitted among the plurality of the training areas. Instruction material management device.

11. An instruction object management method executed by an instruction object management device, A step of acquiring a teaching object to which a teaching area and a teaching level are assigned, and calculating a degree of urgency of the teaching object for each division based on a total estimated work amount A for each division of the teaching object divided for each teaching area and each teaching level, and the number C of instructors who match the teaching object for each division with the teaching area and the teaching level; and transmitting the calculated urgency to an instructor terminal that is a terminal managed by the instructor who corresponds to the instruction area and the instruction level. How to manage teaching materials.

12. A program for causing a computer to function as the teaching object management device according to any one of claims 1 to 10.

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