A Computer-Aided Learning System

✍ Scribed by Jean Lavoie

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1973
• Weight: 541 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7373
• DOI: 10.1016/s0020-7373(73)80025-2

✦ Synopsis

In the framework of an educational experiment in optimizing teaching by the audio-tutorial method, which implies frequent and non-periodic evaluation of each student's progress, it is necessary to have a computer system to realize three main objectives : (a) easy preparation of multiple questionnaires in the form of examinations or'quizzes; (b) automatic grading of student papers; (c) updating a file of each student's progress.

The aims of this paper are threefold: (1) to describe the techniques used to fulfil the objectives of (a) above; (2) to point out the advantages and the difficulties observed while using this technique of evaluation for ~ pilot group of students (about 30 tests given to 300 students during one semester in a statics course);

(3) to discuss possible extensions to the present system, mainly concerning the implementation of objectives (b) and (c) above.