Subject: RE: [IFETS-Discuss] Multiple choice CGI/PERL or java?
BORK@UCI.EDU
Date: Fri 09 Jun 2000 - 00:42:14 MEST
From: BORK@UCI.EDU Subject: RE: [IFETS-Discuss] Multiple choice CGI/PERL or java? Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 15:42:14 -0700
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I believe it is a serious mistake to use multiple choice in computer
learning material. Or in any way in learning! So it is a waste of
resources, and powerful languages, to "program" them - it has been done
many times, and always leads to inferior learning material, in my opinion.
This is reinventing an inferior wheel.
For over thirty years we have developed computer learning programs based on
free-form student input - we ask English questions (other languages in other
countries), accept English answers, and react reasonably to them. They
resemble a conversation with a skilled tutor and a student. This is a human
form of interacting with the world, while multiple choice (multiple guess)
is not.
Only in this way can you find and help with individual student problems, and
so assure that all students will learn.. Such highly interactive material
also maintains student interests for long times. This was possible on much
weaker computers than we have today
More details are in the papers at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~bork . I have
also prepared recently a large middle school science proposal in this
direction. I will be happy to send information about this, and other recent
papers, to those who want them.
Alfred Bork
Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Bork@uci.edu
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