Underlying Student Test Error Detection System and Method

摘要

A system for improving a student's knowledge or problem solving skills that identifies errors of a student's understanding of an underlying topic or application of a requisite skill needed to answer a test question correctly. The system includes a computer with a testing software program that presents a set of two or more questions regarding a topic to a student. Associated to the topic is a set of core concepts. Each question is associated with one or more core concepts and related with the other questions so that at least one core concept matches the core concept on the other questions. When the student incorrectly answers a question, the core concepts associated with the question is reviewed and the answers to the questions containing the matching core concepts are reviewed. If a question associated with the common core concept is previously answered correctly, the core concept associated exclusively to the question answered incorrectly is deemed the source of the error. Instructional materials associated with the core concept deemed to the source of the error are provided to the student.

主权项

1. A system for improving a student's knowledge or problem solving skills, comprising:
a. a computer with working memory; b. a software testing program loaded into the working memory in the computer, said test program configured to present a set of test questions regarding a particular topic to a student, each said topic is associated with a set of core concepts to be taught to a student, said test question configured to test a student's understanding of one or more said core concepts, said testing program configured to identified correct and incorrect answers to said questions from a student, questions with incorrect answers are reviewed to determine said core concepts associated therewith, said core concepts associated with questions answered correctly are ignored, and core concepts associated with questions answered incorrectly and not associated with a correctly answered questions are deemed to be source of the error causing the incorrect answer; and, c. a learning engine that presents teaching information regarding the core concept deemed to be the source of the error.