This paper describes a domain-specific knowledge acquisition tool for intelligent automated troubleshooters based on Bayesian networks. No Bayesian network knowledge is required to use the tool. and troubleshooting information can be specified as natural and intuitive as possible. Probabilities can be specified in the direction that is most natural to the domain expert. Thus, the knowledge acqu...

Executive Summary Educational assessment is a process of drawing reasonable inferences about what students know on the basis of evidence derived from observation of what they say, do or make in selected situations. Educational assessment does not exist in isolation, but should be aligned with instruction in order to support and enhance learning. Assessment functions may be varied, ranging from ...

Many disciplines currently have more or less organized activities concerned with developing resources to support Internetand computer-based instruction. This talk will examine this area, with particular focus on the questions: • What is special about computational linguistics in terms of its subject matter, history and existing resonrces? • What is the current state of resources in our area? • ...

Education, also the technical one, is supposed to prepare students for adult life, not only by providing them with ready-made knowledge, but first of all by equipping students with an ability to learn, gather and select information. Active methods influence students’ senses, allowing for a better understanding and remembering the subject matter. The study shows some didactic methods used in tec...

d) PISA assesses both subject matter content knowledge, on the one hand, and the capacity of individuals to apply that knowledge creatively, including in unfamiliar contexts, on the other. Until now PISA has assessed students in three main domains in each round: reading, mathematics and science. These domains cover some of the fundamental skills needed to continue on with higher education or su...

In this paper we describe an interactive approach for finding outliers in big sets of records, such as collected by banks, insurance companies, web shops. The key idea behind our approach is the usage of an easy-to-compute and easy-to-interpret outlier score function. This function is used to identify a set of potential outliers. The outliers, organized in clusters, are then presented to a doma...

This study validates a pedagogical framework, which integrates a mainstream game to teach the technology supporting that game. Technologies in learning games can engage students and make the learning contents interesting to them. However, technologies themselves are seldom the subject of learning in the game they support. In addition, learning activities in a gaming context usually engage stude...

Language is a particular kind of formal structure. It allows systematic approach to the subject matter for the speaker while providing an exploratory space to reason with. In this paper, we present a simple language that describes spatial qualities of architecture based on the geometry of built elements. We also provide a detailed description of the components and the structure of our language ...

Learning ought to Ilf' motiyated by its subjed matter and by the material to be learned. not b~' pressure. foree. 01' reward from the teacher 01' parents. Institutionalised learning differs from the aequisition of information outside of school: in the former. learning is demanded more 01' less independently of the needs and wishes ofthe indiyid· uals concerned. whereas thf' latter is "naturally...

Most economists would, if questioned, agree that our subject matter is real in some sense, although we shall see that there is some doubt as to how we pin down reality. Indeed, once we start studying any real subject matter, collecting evidence and constructing theories, we are putting a distance between ourselves as economists and reality. This is inevitable. It is the purpose of gathering evi...