A testing system for diagnosing misconceptions in DC electric circuits

Kuo En Chang*, Sei Hua Liu, Sei Wang Chen

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Abstract

A testing-based diagnosing system is implemented. The system has a problem library that collects some suitable problems and associated answers. 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 discriminate the student's misconceptions. The problem selector and the diagnoser are implemented with matrix operations. For evaluating the performance of the system, the topic of basic DC electricity is used as the subject domain. There are nine types of misconceptions found in basic electricity. Based on the experimental results, the system has the satisfactory diagnosis.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)195-210
Number of pages16
JournalComputers and Education
Volume31
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1998 Sept

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • Education

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