KERMIT: A Knowledge-based Entity Relationship Modelling Intelligent Tutor

Database (DB) modelling is the foundation of an efficient database. Similar to other design tasks, database modelling requires extensive practice to excel in it. Conventionally, DB modelling is taught in classrooms where the task of modelling a typical database is demonstrated and students practice in tutorials. Even though one-to-one human tutoring is the most effective teaching method, there will never be enough resources to provide individual human tutoring to each student. Intelligent Teaching Systems offer bright prospects for providing individualised pedagogical sessions to a much larger population of students. We present KERMIT, the Knowledge-based Entity Relationship Modelling Intelligent Tutor. KERMIT is developed as a problem-solving environment for Entity Relationship modelling, a popular high-level conceptual data model. The main aim of the system is to individualise pedagogical instructions towards each student. This paper presents the current state of the implementation of KERMIT.