The literature on intelligent or adaptive tutoring systems generally has a focus on how to determine what resources to present to students as they make their way through a course of study. The idea of multi-faceted student modeling is that a variety of measures, both academic and nonacademic, might be represented in student models in service of a broader educational context. This paper contains...

In this work, a knowledge model, new object-oriented rule model (NORM), is proposed based on the concept of learning and thinking behaviors of human. It provides high maintainability and reusability through the object-oriented concept. There are four basic relations between knowledge concepts defined in NORM: Reference, Extension-of, Trigger and Acquire. These relations are helpful in describin...

As described 'in the introduction to GUIDON (Chapter 11), Clancey's work on that system led to an appreciation of the severe limitations of MYCIN's knowledge base if the system were to be used for instructional purposes (Clancey, 1983b). The NEOMYCIN research described in this chapter has been an attempt to rethink the knowledge structure and diagnostic strategy of MYCIN in view of requirements...