Introduction
Many researchers postulated different approaches through which students’ performance in all subjects could be improved. Notwithstanding, not much improvements have been recorded. It is believe that if teachers are skilful in the designing of Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS), students will be motivated to use ITS on their own to direct their own learning. Therefore, this course presents how to design an ITS as a means of formative test in schools. This is a most know technique for teachers for the following reasons:
1.It helps students to learn on their own and at their own pace.
2.Since it is technologically driven, students feel motivated to learn anything from the computer, this will be a good platform for students to exercise their curiosity thereby learning useful pieces of information in their subjects.
The following are the course description:
Course Title: How to Design an Artificial Intelligent Tutoring System in Assessment for Learning
Course Code: VGAS 706
Course Type: Theoretical 20% and Practical 80%
Course Credit Points 2.0 Lessons
Weekly contact: 4 hours
Number of weeks: 8 weeks
No of Contact Hours 32 hours (It is expected that candidates use 25 hours for practical and seven hours on the theory including further readings and revisions)
Features of the Course:
Assessment: Practical Assignment 70 marks; End of Class Assessment 30 marks
Pass mark: 80% - leading to the award of a certificate
This course has eight Lessons. It has a textual introduction / description. Each Lesson is made up of 5 to 21 minutes short videos as presented:
Lesson 1: Introduction (8 minutes, 40 seconds)
Lesson 2 : ITS: meaning, type and components (7 minutes, 31 seconds)
Lesson 3: Selection of test items (11 minutes, 40 seconds)
Lesson 4: Corrective Mechanism (10 minutes, 15 seconds)
Lesson 5: Development of ITS Architecture (15 minutes 54 seconds)
Lesson 6: Use of the ITS Architecture to incorporate the question and corrective mechanism (21 minutes, 3 seconds)
Lesson 7: Deployment of ITS for Learners’ Use (9 minutes 37 seconds)
Lesson 8: Development of User’s Manual (6 minutes 15 minutes)
Each lesson has 5 questions which a candidate must attempt and get 80%. There are two practical work which must be done and submitted to the course lecturer at the appointed date.