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Bejar, Isaac I. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1984
Approaches proposed for educational diagnostic assessment are reviewed and identified as deficit assessment and error analysis. The development of diagnostic instruments may require a reexamination of existing psychometric models and development of alternative ones. The psychometric and content demands of diagnostic assessment all but require test…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Testing, Criterion Referenced Tests, Diagnostic Tests
Soloway, Elliot; And Others – 1982
This report examines the features and performance of the BUG-FINDing component of MENO-II, a computer-based tutor for beginning PASCAL programming students. A discussion of the use of artificial intelligence techniques is followed by a summary of the system status and objectives. The two main components of MENO-II are described, beginning with the…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Computer Science Education
Johnson, W. Lewis; Soloway, Elliot – 1983
This report describes PROUST, a computer-based system for online analyses and understanding of PASCAL programs written by novice programmers, which takes as input a program and a non-algorithmic description of the program requirements and finds the most likely mapping between the requirements and the code. Both the theory and processing techniques…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Processes, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs
VanLehn, Kurt – 1983
A theory of how people learn certain procedural skills is presented. It is based on the idea that the teaching and learning that goes on in a classroom is like an ordinary conversation. The speaker (teacher) compresses a non-linear knowledge structure (the target procedure) into a linear sequence of utterances (lessons). The listener (student)…
Descriptors: Algebra, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes