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The application of cognitive diagnosis to the quantitative analysis of simple electrical circuits

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 1992)

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The problem of diagnosing performance errors has been of interest to both educationalists and artificial intelligence researchers for many years. Multicolumn subtraction has been a popular domain in which to experiment with the diagnosis of errors. Ohlsson has proposed an approach termed “cognitive diagnosis” which uses a form of heuristic search to find plausible sequences of actions that lead from a multicolumn subtraction task to a known solution.

We have developed an application of cognitive diagnosis to a different domain from the one for which it was originally developed. The system solves simple electrical circuit problems. The reimplementation has raised a number of questions about the cognitive diagnosis technique and its general applicability. We briefly discuss these issues in terms of the future utility of the technique.

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  1. Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

    Paul Brna & Andrew Caiger

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Brna, P., Caiger, A. (1992). The application of cognitive diagnosis to the quantitative analysis of simple electrical circuits. In: Frasson, C., Gauthier, G., McCalla, G.I. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 608. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55606-0_48

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