Can we get better assessment from a tutoring system compared to traditional paper testing? can we have our cake (better assessment) and eat it too (student learning during the test)?

Educational Data Mining 2010 - 3rd International Conference on Educational Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 41-50

  Feng, Mingyu ^a   Heffernan, Neil ^b  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment in learning system; Dynamic assessment

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT; EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM; INTERACTIVE APPROACH; LEARNING GAIN; PAPER TESTING; STUDENT LEARNING; STUDENT PERFORMANCE; TUTORING SYSTEM;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DATA MINING; EDUCATION COMPUTING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RATING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84857473060     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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