Title :
Adding adaptive assessment capabilities to an e-learning system
Author :
Hatzilygeroudis, Ioannis ; Koutsojannis, Constantinos ; Papachristou, Nikolaos
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Eng. & Informatics, Patras Univ.
Abstract :
In this paper, we present EX-COFALE, an extension to an existing open-source, Web-based adaptive e-learning system, namely COFALE. COFALE, although offers facilities for adaptive content presentation, adaptive use of pedagogical devices and adaptive communication, it lacks facilities for adaptive student assessment. EX-COFALE remedies this deficiency of COFALE by allowing for automated test creation and assessment based on the students´ knowledge information. To this end, COFALE has been modified to allow for representation of associations between test questions and learning concepts. Also, assessment is made at two levels, the concept and the goal level, taking into account the difficulty level of the questions. To technically achieve the above, expert systems technology is used
Keywords :
Internet; computer aided instruction; expert systems; open systems; EX-COFALE; Web-based adaptive e-learning system; adaptive assessment; expert system; open-source system; Adaptive systems; Artificial intelligence; Automatic testing; Cognitive science; Electronic learning; Expert systems; Informatics; Intelligent systems; Open source software; Problem-solving;
Conference_Titel :
Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization, 2006. SMAP '06. First International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Athens
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2692-6
DOI :
10.1109/SMAP.2006.8