QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN COMPUTER-DIRECTED TEACHING SYSTEMS.
Abstract
The report formulates in quantitative terms the decision problem associated with the design of a computer-directed teaching system. This formulation is then used to direct a theoretical inquiry into some of the aspects of this problem that are relevant to the design of a quantitative decision process within a practical teaching system. Some of the problems attacked include: the development of a class of models for conceptual learning, the study of a decision theoretic procedure for the selection of the model from a class of models, the investigation of optimum teaching strategies (in an economic sense) for a simple learning model, the derivation of the optimum quantization of a past history parameter for a simple teaching system, a consideration of the information-reward trade off in computer-directed teaching systems, and a preliminary formulation of the optimum design problem for a time-shared teaching system. The report concludes with a discussion of directions for future research. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 15, 1967
- Accession Number
- AD0657190
Entities
People
- Iram J. Weinstein
- James E. Eckles
- Richard D. Smallwood
Organizations
- Stanford University