INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM: AN ASSESSMENT STRATEGY FOR TUTORING ON-LINE

Francesco Colace, Massimo De Santo, Mario Vento

2006

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a tutoring approach for E-Learning formative process. This approach is strictly related to the assessment phase. Assessment in the context of education is the process of characterizing what a student knows. The reasons to perform evaluation are quite varied, ranging from a need to informally understand student learning progress in a course to a need to characterize student expertise in a subject. Otherwise finding an appropriate assessment tool is a central challenge in designing a tutoring approach. In this paper we propose an assessment method based on the use of ontologies and their representation through a Bayesian Networks. The aim of our approach is the generation of adapted questionnaires in order to test the student’s knowledge in every phase of learning process. Analyzing the results of the evaluation an intelligent tutoring system can help students offering an effective support to learning process and adapting their learning paths.

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in Harvard Style

Colace F., De Santo M. and Vento M. (2006). INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM: AN ASSESSMENT STRATEGY FOR TUTORING ON-LINE . In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-45-0, pages 157-160. DOI: 10.5220/0002457001570160


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis06,
author={Francesco Colace and Massimo De Santo and Mario Vento},
title={INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM: AN ASSESSMENT STRATEGY FOR TUTORING ON-LINE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,},
year={2006},
pages={157-160},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002457001570160},
isbn={978-972-8865-45-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,
TI - INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM: AN ASSESSMENT STRATEGY FOR TUTORING ON-LINE
SN - 978-972-8865-45-0
AU - Colace F.
AU - De Santo M.
AU - Vento M.
PY - 2006
SP - 157
EP - 160
DO - 10.5220/0002457001570160