Assessment of the Java-DSP (J-DSP) on-line laboratory software

This paper presents assessment results of the Java-DSP (J-DSP) on-line laboratory. J-DSP software has been developed from the ground up at Arizona State University (ASU) to support the computer lab portion of the senior-level DSP course EEE407. The software enables on-line interactive DSP laboratories. Along with the software, we have developed several J-DSP laboratory exercises that have been posted on the Internet. Assessment of the EEE 407 labs was carried both on the Web and as part of the instructor and class evaluation. The Web-based assessments have been organized into: general software assessments, general laboratory assessments, concept-specific lab-by-lab assessments, and differential pre/post assessment for each lab. Statistical and qualitative evaluations have been compiled for all the J-DSP laboratories and are described in the rest of the paper.