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

该项目的目标是扩展和完善由匹兹堡大学经济系和学习研究和开发中心合作开发的智能教学系统的创新和有前途的应用。该方法是将微观经济学入门教学大纲的主要部分作为实验室科学进行教学的一次开创性尝试。考虑到它解决了人们对当前经济学入门课程教学方法普遍存在的不满，所采取的方向可能会为其他学校的经济系树立榜样。该项目的一个重要特点是它将收集匹兹堡大学和其他学院和大学的学生学习困难的大量数据。这一项目的结果应该会重振过去几年来对经济学大专教学的教学研究日益下降的兴趣。

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.