Dynamic computerized testlet-based test generation system by discrete PSO with partial course ontology

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 774-786

  Tsai, Kun Hua ^a   Wang, Tzone I ^a   Hsieh, Tung Cheng ^a   Chiu, Ti Kai ^a   Lee, Ming Che ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Computerized test system; Concept expansion; Discrete PSO; Partial ontology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TEST SYSTEM; COMPUTERIZED TESTS; CONCEPT EXPANSION; COURSE ONTOLOGY; DISCRETE PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION; DISCRETE PSO; PARTIAL ONTOLOGY; TEST GENERATIONS; TEST REQUIREMENTS;

E-LEARNING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); STUDENTS; TEACHING;

TESTING;

EID: 70349443531     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.05.090     Document Type: Article

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