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The formula: A relation? Yes, but a concept too!

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Computer Aided Learning and Instruction in Science and Engineering (CALISCE 1996)

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This article presents an original type of knowledge modelling in an intelligent tutoring system, which is adapted from entity-relationship models and from semantic and conceptual networks. The knowledge domain is cost engineering. Although the formulæ used in cost engineering problem solving are usually considered as relations between variables, the originality of our approach lies in the use of these formulæ to identify new concepts, the factors, of a more pedagogical nature. The introduction of these concepts should help the student to concentrate either on computations or on economic analysis, and the system to make more accurate and more useful tutoring interventions. Moreover, this concept creation brings to light a hierarchy of intermediate abstraction levels, which can then be used to derive an order of presentation of these concepts, an order of the corresponding prerequisites, and an order of the exercise types. All these should facilitate the student's learning in cost engineering.

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  1. Département d'informatique, Université Laval, G1K 7P4, Québec, Canada

    Ruddy Lelouche & Jean-François Morin

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Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza Sánchez Isabel Fernández de Castro

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Lelouche, R., Morin, JF. (1996). The formula: A relation? Yes, but a concept too!. In: Díaz de Ilarraza Sánchez, A., Fernández de Castro, I. (eds) Computer Aided Learning and Instruction in Science and Engineering. CALISCE 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1108. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0022605

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