A method to support learning on structures of chemical substances for intelligent educational system of high school chemistry

Author

Yukimoto, Satoshi ; Yoshikawa, Kiyoshi ; Takahashi, Isamu ; Konishi, Tatsuhiro ; Itoh, Yukihiro

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf., Shizuoka Univ., Japan

fYear

2002

fDate

3-6 Dec. 2002

Firstpage

1455

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss an intelligent educational system for high-school chemistry that helps learners who do not understand structures of chemical substances. In order to help such learners, it is not enough to merely display the relevant structures. We propose a method taking advantage of virtual phenomena representing how the substances are composed. In order to deal with virtual phenomena, we improve our prototype system by extending the chemical reaction simulator and the problem solver for exercises. We also illustrate implementation of our extended system and the experimental evaluation of it.

Keywords

chemical structure; chemical technology; computer aided instruction; digital simulation; chemical reaction simulator; chemical substances structures; high school chemistry; intelligent educational system; learning support; problem solver; simulator; virtual phenomena; Chemicals; Chemistry; Displays; Educational institutions; Intelligent structures; Intelligent systems; Laboratories; Layout; Prototypes; Virtual prototyping;

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.2002.1186295

Filename

1186295