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Improving Automated Feedback-BuildingAGenericRule-FeedbackGenerator

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Date: 2007-09-27

Time: 11:45

Room: BBL room 471

----+++ Speaker: Eric Bouwers

----+++ Title: Improving Automated Feedback
Building a Generic Rule-Feedback Generator (thesis defense)

----+++ Abstract

The importance of feedback in learning a procedural skill cannot be
ignored. It is therefore surprising to see that many of the existing
educational tools aimed at learning these skills fail to provide
feedback on a level above this is incorrect. Those tools that do
manage to provide higher quality feedback are the result of several
years of research. Transferring this research to different domains is
not interesting research material, and therefore not done by the
academic world. On the other hand, commercial implementers do not seem
to want to spend large amounts of resources on improving the feedback
part of their software. This is probably because the trade-off between
investing in research and the expected profit is of no commercial
interest.

We aim at solving this problem by combining both existing as well as
new research into one generic framework. Instantiating this framework
on a particular domain results in a  configurable tool that can
provide feedback after each step in solving an exercise. The quality
of this feedback ranges from a simple incorrect to a custom-made
feedback message, depending on the level and amount of configuration
that is used. As an example, we instantiate the framework on three
different domains and evaluate the feedback with several
domain-specialists. The result is a solid framework that can serve as
a basis for future research as well as a prototype for further
development.

[[%ATTACHURL%/slides.pdf][slides.pdf]]: Slides of the presentation

-- Main.EricBouwers - 28 Sep 2007

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