A Tutor System for Statistical Data Analysis

本研究的目的是开发一种计算机软件，用于统计数据分析的教学。学生们并不总是擅长统计和统计软件包。在一个有十几名学生的班级里，几乎不可能对每个学生的学习需求给予个别的关注。超文本在这种情况下很有用。它有数据库管理器，可以处理文本，图形，图像和音频和视频数据。我们的导师系统是一个与外部统计程序有链接的超文本程序。它是一个浏览系统，您可以在其中浏览信息并运行外部程序。导师制度有专家的教育知识和经验。它是一种专家系统。一个具有超文本能力和外部统计程序的辅导系统需要大量的计算能力。一个高性能的工作站系统是满足这些需求的必要条件。我们在1991年秋天建立了一个实验系统。我们让学生在课堂上进行测试。实验结果在日本社会学协会和日本计算统计学会的会议上报告。我们使用了MacSE/30、HyperCard和SPSS/Mac。

The purpose of this study is to develop a computer software for teaching statistical data analysis to students. The students are not always good at statistics and statistical packages. In a class with more than ten students, it is almost impossible to give individual attention to the learning needs of each students. Hypertext is useful for this situation. It has database manager which can handle text, graphics, images and audio and video data. Our tutor system is a hypertext program which has links with external statistical programs. It is a browsing system in which you can navigate information and can run the external programs. A tutor system has experts' knowledge and experience of education. It is one type of an expert system. A tutor system with hypertext ability and external statistical programs requires a lot of computing power. A high performance work station system is necessary to fulfill these needs. We built an experimental system in the fall of 1991. We let our students test it in the class. The results of the experiment was reported at the conferences of the Japanese Sociological Association and the Japanese Society of computational Statistics. We used MacSE/30, HyperCard, and SPSS/Mac.