Diagnosing students´ algebra errors on the Web

Author

Lee, Fong-lok

Author_Institution

Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China

fYear

2002

fDate

3-6 Dec. 2002

Firstpage

578

Abstract

Electronic Homework was an intelligent tutoring system that runs on stand-alone computers initially and is now migrated to the Web to provide an on-line homework tutorial. The system contains a database of different sets of algebra problems from which learners can choose what sort of problems to practice. When a learner is solving a problem, the system diagnoses concurrently every step he/she does, and prompts and guides him/her back to the correct solution path once errors are detected (Lee & Heyworth, 1997; Lee, 2001 (two papers)). Besides giving online tutorials, the system serves to collect students´ errors for later analyses in order that the system can be improved (Lee & Heyworth, 1999).

Keywords

algebra; error analysis; information resources; intelligent tutoring systems; Electronic Homework; Web; algebra problems; database; intelligent tutoring system; on-line homework tutorial; problem solving; stand-alone computers; students´ algebra errors diagnosis; Algebra; Computer errors; Databases; Educational institutions; Equations; Error correction; Home computing; Intelligent systems; Mathematics; Polynomials;

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.2002.1186010

Filename

1186010