INVESTIGATIONS ON THE QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY OF INSTRUCTIVE COMPUTER-AIDED TRAINING

Research into pedagogical processes help to overcome the inconsistency between the diversity of the pedagogical phenomena and inevitable lim itations implied by the actual research topic. Experiments play a sign ificant role in investigating the dynamics, diversity and discrepancie s in pedagogical phenomena, and contribute to the improvement of the c ontents, methods and organisation of training. An experiment was carri ed out with the application of MICROKURS--a software environment for d eveloping tutoring courses which is itself a knowledge-managed tutorin g system. The main features and advantages of the environment are brie fly discussed. The purpose of the experiment is to investigate the qua lity and intensity of learning declarative knowledge through a knowled ge-managed CAI system and to compare the results from this with those obtained by the classical approach. This article presents the organisa tion, the arrangements, the experimental procedure and the results of that experiment. An evaluation was made of the methods for testing sta tistical hypothesis with two independent samples.