NORMIT: a Web-enabled tutor for database normalization

Author

Mitrovic, Antonija

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Canterbury Univ., Christchurch, New Zealand

fYear

2002

fDate

3-6 Dec. 2002

Firstpage

1276

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Education, 2002. Proceedings. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1509-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIE.2002.1186210

Filename

1186210