Intelligent Tutoring Systems: A Taxonomy of Evaluation Issues

Abstract

This paper posits a taxonomy for categorizing issues that arise in the evaluation of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs). The taxonomy has three dimensions: Life Cycle of Evaluation, Research Issues, and Methodological Issues. The Life Cycle dimension has four levels: pre-experimental, laboratory study, field study, and initial operational test and evaluation. The three levels of the Research Issues dimension--functionality, effectiveness, and cost- -are subsequently further divided into several sublevels. The Methodological Issues dimension is discussed in the context of each of the Research Issues levels. A recommendation from this work is that ITS evaluation studies should adopt multi-dimensional, multi-method designs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA222090

Entities

People

  • J. L. Fleming
  • Kurt Steuck

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Contractors
  • Costs
  • Cycles
  • Digital Information
  • Education
  • Instructors
  • Life Cycles
  • Psychology
  • Students
  • Taxonomy
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Software Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Theoretical Analysis.