Language Assessment Feedback Towards Pedagogical Conversational Agent

Continuous development of technology provides an opportunity to incorporate feedback in online assessments.The mode of online instruction during the pandemic was the most significant survival change.Technology enabled every teacher and student to enter a virtual classroom to make sense of education.Feedback is part of language instruction and is a powerful key to improving students’learning performance.Feedback plays an influential and crucial role in teaching and learning.Feedback is an invaluable,ultimate learning tool for learners that aids them in not committing the same error again and creates impetus.Thus,knowing about formative exam feedback is students’right because quality feedback allures them.Given students’eagerness,providing feedback is considered a good practice to be followed by all the teaching faculty.Apropos of online feedback,the present study attempts to study how pedagogical agents provide online feedback in language assessments.The study also considers the characteristics of pedagogical conversational agents that are suitable for providing feedback in online language assessment.Simply put,the study encapsulates that screen agents play an essential role in students’motivation and acceptability of learning through feedback.

Structural and optical properties of CZTS nanoparticles prepared by a colloidal process

This research presents the influence of copper(Cu) concentration on the properties of copper zinc tin sulfide(CZTS) nanoparticles(NPs) synthesized by a colloidal method, employing oleylamine as an organic solvent. From the structural analysis, a pure phase of CZTS was obtained at an optimized molar ratio of 1.8:1.1:1:4,and secondary phases were observed as the Cu concentration increased. The increment of the NPs size from 15 to50 nm was noticed as a function of Cu concentration.Importantly, the optical bandgap energy was tuned from1.35 to 1.68 eV with respect to Cu concentration. The sample synthesized at the molar ratio of 1.8:1.1:1:4 showed a pure phase CZTS with desired elemental composition and bandgap. Furthermore, CZTS thin films were prepared by a doctor-blade method using synthesized NPs followed by annealing under a sulfur/nitrogen atmosphere. The annealed CZTS film showed a significant improvement in the morphological, electrical and optoelectronic properties.Thus, the annealed CZTS film can be efficiently used as an absorber layer in low-cost thin film solar cells.