Intelligent tutoring system for CS-I and II laboratory

ABSTRACT

A Web-based adaptive tutoring system which dynamically adapts to each student's needs and gives a student immediate feedback is being developed for our CS-I and CS-II closed laboratories. The system currently contains the question tutor, the program tutor, and the course management components. The tutoring components help students learn programming concepts through hands-on, self-paced exercises. The course management component helps teachers prepare and maintain the lab materials. Experiments have been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of this new tutoring system and promising preliminary results were obtained.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
      K.3.1 Computer Uses in Education

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors, Management

Keywords:
adaptive tutor, courseware, visualization, web interfaces to databases, web-based laboratory