SBIR Phase II: Advanced Software for Interactive Chemistry Tutoring

SBIR 第二阶段：交互式化学辅导的高级软件

• 批准号: 0132003
• 负责人: Benny Johnson
• 金额: $ 50万
• 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: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-02-15 至 2005-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0132003&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Advanced; Software

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will produce a set of completed and commercially viable intelligent tutoring systems for chemistry education, building upon a rule-based, model-tracing, cognitive modeling tutor prototype for chemical equation balancing. Teachers, students, parents and administrators state that existing chemistry education software does not satisfy their need for truly interactive and on-demand computer instruction. Current approaches are rigid and linear, offering only a limited number of fixed and statically scripted problems. They do not deal with the individual student's own work in any meaningful or intelligent way. By simulating reasoning using chemical principles rather than compiling a database of problems and answers, artificial intelligence methods can provide a route to overcoming these serious fundamental limitations. Although the technology proffered by Quantum Simulations, Inc. is technology that will assist all students, those students of average or marginal performance will benefit the most.Creating tutoring systems that can function as guides and not just as graders of student work is an important step in realizing the full value of computers in education. The proposed work takes a significant step in this direction. Moreover, the technology has been designed in a general way such that it can be applied to other educational topics beyond chemistry and can work together in a synergistic, value-added fashion with other tools and curricula in a multi-resource learning environment. Quantum Simulations, Inc., customers are driven by strong end user needs and include textbook publishers, software provides, and distance learning companies.

这个小企业创新研究(SBIR)第二阶段项目将为化学教育生产一套完整的、商业上可行的智能辅导系统，该系统建立在一个基于规则、模型跟踪、认知建模的化学方程式平衡导师原型的基础上。教师、学生、家长和管理人员表示，现有的化学教育软件不能满足他们对真正交互和按需进行的计算机教学的需求。目前的方法是僵化和线性的，只提供有限数量的固定和静态脚本问题。他们不会以任何有意义或有智慧的方式来处理学生个人的作业。通过使用化学原理模拟推理，而不是编译问题和答案的数据库，人工智能方法可以提供一条克服这些严重根本限制的途径。尽管Quantum Simulations，Inc.提供的技术将帮助所有学生，但那些表现一般或边缘的学生将受益最大。创建可以作为指导而不仅仅是学生作业评分的辅导系统是实现计算机在教育中的全部价值的重要一步。拟议的工作朝着这个方向迈出了重要的一步。此外，这项技术的设计大体上使其可以应用于化学以外的其他教育主题，并可以在多种资源的学习环境中与其他工具和课程协同增值。量子模拟公司的客户是由强烈的最终用户需求驱动的，包括教科书出版商、软件提供商和远程学习公司。