Comparison of intelligent systems in detecting a child's mathematical gift

Computers and Education

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 142-154

  Pavlekovic, Margita ^a   Zekic Susac, Marijana ^a   Djurdjevic, Ivana ^a  

^a JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Elementary education; Evaluation methodologies; Expert system; Mathematical gift; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

CROATIANS; DATA SETS; ELEMENTARY EDUCATION; ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; HIT RATES; INPUT SPACES; INTELLIGENT DECISION SUPPORTS; INTELLIGENT METHODS; LOGIC RULES; MATHEMATICAL GIFT; NEURAL NETWORK ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATIONS; RADIAL BASIS NEURAL NETWORKS; TYPE II ERRORS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 64449085159     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

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