Title :
NORMIT: a Web-enabled tutor for database normalization
Author :
Mitrovic, Antonija
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Canterbury Univ., Christchurch, New Zealand
Abstract :
The paper describes the design and development of NORMIT, an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) that teaches database normalization to university students. NORMIT is a Web-enabled system, and we discuss its architecture and techniques used to deal with multiple students. We also discuss constraint-based modeling (CBM), the underlying student and domain modelling approach. NORMIT is the first in the series of constraint-based tutors developed at ICTG that teaches a procedural task, and we comment on the suitability of CBM for such tasks. We also discuss the plans for the evaluation of the system and future work.
Keywords :
database management systems; database theory; information resources; intelligent tutoring systems; software packages; NORMIT; Web-enabled system; Web-enabled tutor; constraint-based modeling; database normalization; domain modelling; intelligent tutoring system; procedural task; student modelling; university students; Computer architecture; Computer science; Database languages; Deductive databases; Educational institutions; Hardware; Intelligent systems; Learning systems; Problem-solving; Relational databases;
Conference_Titel :
Computers in Education, 2002. Proceedings. International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1509-6
DOI :
10.1109/CIE.2002.1186210
