A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Combining heuristics and formal methods in a tool for supporting simulation-based discovery learning




AuthorsKoen Veermans, Wouter R. van Joolingen

PublisherSpringer

Publication year2004

JournalLecture Notes in Computer Science

Journal name in sourceINTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS, PROCEEDINGS

Journal acronymLECT NOTES COMPUT SC

Volume3220

First page 217

Last page226

Number of pages10

ISBN3-540-22948-5

ISSN0302-9743

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30139-4_21


Abstract

This paper describes the design of a tool to support learners in simulation-based discovery learning environments. The design redesigns and extents a previous tool to overcome issues that came up in a classroom learning setting. The tool focuses on supporting learners with experimentation to identify or test hypotheses. The aim is not only to support learning domain knowledge, but also learning discovery teaming skills. For this purpose the tool uses heuristics and formal methods to assess the learners experimenting behavior, and translates this assessment into feedback directed at improving the quality of the learners discovery learning behavior. The tool is designed to be part of an authoring environment for designing simulation-based learning environments, which put some constraints on the design, but also ensures that the tool can be reused in different teaming environments. After describing the design, a learning scenario is used to serve as an illustration of the tool, and finally some concluding remarks, evaluation results, and potential extensions for the tool are presented.




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