Development of an Intelligent Tutoring System for Laboratory Teaching of Introductory Microeconomics

该项目的目的是扩大和完善一个创新的， 智能教学系统的应用前景广阔 匹兹堡大学经济学系 系和学习研究与发展中心。 的 教学法是一种开创性的尝试， 微观经济学入门课程的一部分 科学 所采取的方向很可能成为一个模式， 其他学校的经济系，考虑到它的方式， 解决了对当前方法的普遍不满， 教授初级经济学课程。 一个重要特征 该项目的最大优势是它将收集大量的数据， 关于大学学生学习困难的报告 匹兹堡和其他大学。 导出的结果 从这个项目应该重振已经下降 过去几年对教学研究的兴趣 关于高等教育经济学的教学。

The project aim is to extend and refine an innovative and promising application of intelligent tutoring systems developed collaboratively by the University of Pittsburgh's Economics Department and Learning Research and Development Center. The methodology is a pioneering attempt at teaching major portions of the introductory microeconomics syllabus as a laboratory science. The direction taken is likely to serve as a model for economics departments at other schools, given the way it addresses a pervasive dissatisfaction with the current methods of teaching beginning economics courses. An important feature of the project is the vast amount of data which it will gather on student learning difficulties at the University of Pittsburgh and other college and universities. Results derived from this project should reinvigorate what has been a declining interest over the past several years in instructional research on the post-secondary teaching of economics.