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Intelligent tutoring systems have being extensively researched, and are viewed as cost-effective alternatives to traditional education. However, it has been long recognized that development of such systems is labor-intensive and time-consuming, and that a certain degree of automation in the development process is necessary. This paper proposes a framework for automating test generation – one of the key components in an intelligent tutoring system. The core of the framework is a domain conceptual model, a collection of testing goals, and a collection of test-generation rules, and the latter two are formulated from an analysis of various modes of error and on the basis of the domain conceptual model.
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Suqin, T., Cungen, C. (2006). A Framework for Automated Test Generation in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. In: Lang, J., Lin, F., Wang, J. (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. KSEM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4092. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11811220_33
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