Evaluation of the advice generator of an intelligent learning environment

Author

Virvou, Maria ; Katerina, Kabassi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf., Univ. of Piraeus, Greece

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

339

Lastpage

342

Abstract

This paper describes a formative evaluation of the advice generator of an intelligent learning environment for novice users of a GUI. 20 human tutors participated in this procedure. The human tutors had to answer theoretical questions about their way of generating advice. In addition, they were asked what they would advise learners in real-life examples which were acquired by a previous empirical study. Their answers were compared to the responses generated by the learning environment. As a consequence, improvements were made to the system based on the evaluations´ conclusions

Keywords

computer literacy; decision support systems; graphical user interfaces; intelligent tutoring systems; knowledge acquisition; software performance evaluation; GUI; advice generator evaluation; empirical study; graphical user interface; human tutors; intelligent learning environment; learners; novice users; system improvements; theoretical questions; Costs; Educational products; Graphical user interfaces; Humans; Informatics; Intelligent systems; Pattern analysis; User interfaces; Watches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies, 2001. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Madison, WI

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1013-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2001.943939

Filename

943939