A TESTING SYSTEM FOR DIAGNOSING MISCONCEPTIONS IN DC ELECTRIC-CIRCUITS

Authors
CHANG KE LIU SH CHEN SW
Citation
Ke. Chang et al., A TESTING SYSTEM FOR DIAGNOSING MISCONCEPTIONS IN DC ELECTRIC-CIRCUITS, Computers and education, 31(2), 1998, pp. 195-210
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Education & Educational Research","Computer Science Interdisciplinary Applications","Computer Science Interdisciplinary Applications
Journal title
Computers and education → ACNP
ISSN journal
03601315
Volume
31
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
195 - 210
Database
ISI
SICI code
0360-1315(1998)31:2<195:ATSFDM>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
A testing-based diagnosing system is implemented. The system has a pro blem library that collects some suitable problems and associated answe rs. The answers of each problem are related to misconceptions. Problem selector in the system provides some problems to test student. Based on the student's answers, the diagnoser in the system will discriminat e the student's misconceptions. The problem selector and the diagnoser are implemented with matrix operations. For evaluating the performanc e of the system, the topic of basic DC electricity is used as the subj ect domain. There are nine types of misconceptions found in basic elec tricity. Based on the experimental results, the system has the satisfa ctory diagnosis. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.