TY - GEN
T1 - Design and evaluation of the SUMIT intelligent teaching assistant for arithmetic
AU - Nicolson, Roderick I.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1992.
PY - 1992/1/1
Y1 - 1992/1/1
N2 - The technique for creating diagnostic tutors for arithmetic has been established for over a decade, but progress towards the creation of an educationally viable system has been disappointingly slow. The SUMIT intelligent teaching assistant for arithmetic was designed explicitly to meet the requirements of classroom arithmetic teaching. Unlike earlier arithmetic tutors, SUMIT is intended to function as a teacher’s assistant, rather than a surrogate teacher. It is fully interactive and is able to give adaptive help; to diagnose misconceptions; to generate graded sequences of sums; and to summarise or replay whole user sessions for each of the ‘four rules of number’. This paper outlines the design philosophy and the system architecture of the SUMIT system, and it reports two evaluation studies of the classroom effectiveness of the system, demonstrating excellent learning via the use of SUMIT, and a further advantage of the availability of the diagnostic help. It is concluded that construction of intelligent teaching assistants may provide cost-effective and valuable educational resources.
AB - The technique for creating diagnostic tutors for arithmetic has been established for over a decade, but progress towards the creation of an educationally viable system has been disappointingly slow. The SUMIT intelligent teaching assistant for arithmetic was designed explicitly to meet the requirements of classroom arithmetic teaching. Unlike earlier arithmetic tutors, SUMIT is intended to function as a teacher’s assistant, rather than a surrogate teacher. It is fully interactive and is able to give adaptive help; to diagnose misconceptions; to generate graded sequences of sums; and to summarise or replay whole user sessions for each of the ‘four rules of number’. This paper outlines the design philosophy and the system architecture of the SUMIT system, and it reports two evaluation studies of the classroom effectiveness of the system, demonstrating excellent learning via the use of SUMIT, and a further advantage of the availability of the diagnostic help. It is concluded that construction of intelligent teaching assistants may provide cost-effective and valuable educational resources.
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U2 - 10.1007/3-540-55578-1_94
DO - 10.1007/3-540-55578-1_94
M3 - Conference proceeding (ISBN)
AN - SCOPUS:85029764722
SN - 9783540555780
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 491
EP - 502
BT - Computer Assisted Learning - 4th International Conference, ICCAL 1992, Proceedings
A2 - Tomek, Ivan
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 4th International Conference on Computers and Learning, ICCAL 1992
Y2 - 17 June 1992 through 20 June 1992
ER -