Student Modelling: The Key to Individualized Knowledge-Based Instruction

This volume in the NATO Advanced Educational Technology program presents an overview of student modelling. Student modelling gives an intelligent tutoring system the ability to individualize its interactions with the student. The book is comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and up-to-date.

Inhalt

1. Background.- 1. The State of Student Modelling.- 2. Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Student Modelling.- 2. Granularity-Based Reasoning and Belief Revision in Student Models.- 3. Student Modelling Through Qualitative Reasoning.- 4. Modeling the Student in Sherlock II.- 5. Using Machine Learning to Advise a Student Model.- 6. Building a Student Model for an Intelligent Tutoring System.- 3. Human Cognition and Student Modelling.- 7. Constraint-Based Student Modeling.- 8. Strengthening the Novice-Expert Shift Using the Self-Explanation Effect.- 9. Diagnosing and Evaluating the Acquisition Process of Problem Solving Schemata in the Domain of Functional Programming.- 4. Formalizing Student Modelling.- 10. Modelling a Student's Inconsistent Beliefs and Attention.- 11. A Formal Approach To ILEs.- 12. Formal Approaches to Student Modelling.- 5. Epilogue.- 13. Re-Writing Cartesian Student Models.