SBIR Phase I: Advanced Software for Interactive Chemistry Tutoring

SBIR 第一阶段：交互式化学辅导的高级软件

• 批准号: 0060379
• 负责人: Benny Johnson
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Quantum Simulations Incorporated
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-01-01 至 2001-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0060379&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Advanced; Software; Interactive

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is aimed at advancing the state-of-the-art in chemistry education software in a critically important respect demanded by students and teachers. The primary research objective is the development of meaningful interactive tutoring capabilities for problem solving. This area has been repeatedly identified as that where existing offerings are weakest. This project offers a new and different approach, adapting and incorporating certain concepts from artificial intelligence that have not previously been applied in chemistry education. A program will be constructed that not only solves problems, but also can explain its work to the student coherently and respond to various questions. The program will dynamically create detailed explanations of worked-out solutions for problems entered by the student or teacher, and provide the connections to the underlying fundamental chemical concepts. This technology will be implemented as a sophisticated tutoring "engine" that can be easily interfaced to add interactive tutoring capabilities to any existing educational program or curriculum, such as those dealing with practical real-world applications of chemistry.The chemistry education software has broad commercial implications, creating opportunities for tremendous synergy in use with other packages and curricula. In addition, the improvement to be developed is of a fundamental nature, is portable and scalable, and can be deployed equally well on CD-ROM, on the desktop, or on the Internet.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的目的是在学生和教师要求的一个至关重要的方面推进化学教育软件的最先进水平。 主要的研究目标是发展有意义的互动辅导解决问题的能力。 这一领域一再被确定为现有服务最薄弱的领域。 该项目提供了一种新的和不同的方法，适应和融入了人工智能的某些概念，这些概念以前没有应用于化学教育。 一个程序将被构建，不仅解决问题，但也可以解释其工作的学生连贯一致，并回答各种问题。 该程序将动态地为学生或教师输入的问题创建解决方案的详细解释，并提供与基本化学概念的连接。 这项技术将作为一个先进的辅导“引擎”，可以很容易地连接到任何现有的教育计划或课程，如那些处理实际的现实世界中的化学应用程序添加交互式辅导功能。化学教育软件具有广泛的商业意义，创造了巨大的协同使用与其他软件包和课程的机会。 此外，有待开发的改进是根本性的，是可移植的和可升级的，可以同样很好地部署在CD-ROM、桌面或互联网上。