KERMIT: a Knowledge-based Entity-Relationship Modelling Intelligent Tutoring SystemContents of this page:
Overview of KERMITKERMIT is a Knowledge-based Entity Relationship Modelling Intelligent Tutor designed for the University students learning conceptual database modelling. KERMIT teaches the basic ER model. The system presents the requirements for a database the student is to design an ER diagram for. The interface of the system is illustrated here.
KERMIT is based on Constraint-Based Modeling (CBM), a student modeling approach proposed by Stellan Ohlsson. It is a very efficient approach which concentrates on the violations of the basic principles in the domain of instruction. Currently there are about 100 constraints in the system. The system's architecture is illustrated in the following figure. In order to adapt to individual students, KERMIT maintains a model for each student. A student model contains information about the history of previous sessions (like a list of problems solved correctly etc) and also contains a model of the student's knowledge, expressed in terms of constraints. KERMIT was evaluated at the Victoria University (Wellington) and the University of Canterbury. We thank Prof. Pavle Mogin for assisting with the Victoria evaluation. For the results of these evaluations, see the published papers. KERMIT was developed by Pramuditha Suraweera, as his MSc project. The ITS 2002 presentation on KERMIT Since then, other members of ICTG have worked on extensions of KERMIT:
The Web-enabled version (EER-Tutor)EER-TUtor is the Web-enabled version of KERMIT. IT was developed in WETAS, and supports the Enhanced Entity-Relationship model. EER-Tutor is available on the DatabasePlace Web portal, and also locally (for University of Canterbury students only). For question about KERMIT or EER-Tutor, contact Tanja Mitrovic. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this document are those of the author, not the University of Canterbury nor its Council. Send mail to Tanja Mitrovic
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