Generation of Problems, Answers, Grade, and Feedback - Case Study of a Fully Automated Tutor

ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 3-

  Kumar, Amruth N ^a  

^a RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

active learning; Algorithms; answer generation; Design; evaluation; Experimentation; feedback generation; Languages; problem generation; problem solving; Software tutor

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LEARNING; ANSWER GENERATION; FEEDBACK GENERATION; PROBLEM GENERATION; SOFTWARE TUTOR;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EVALUATION; FEEDBACK; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 33749322499     PISSN: 15314278     EISSN: 15314278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1163405.1163408     Document Type: Article

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