Title: Adaptive Navigation Support
for Individualized Self-Assessment Quizzes
When: Monday, October 25, 2004
12:00 noon
Where: Room 501, IS Building
Who: Sergey Sosnovsky, Information
Science PhD Student
Abstract: The talk will introduces
QuizGuide, an adaptive web-based system that has been
developed at SIS to help students in selecting the most
relevant self-assessment quizzes. QuizGuide uses adaptive
navigation support to show every student which topics
are currently most important and which require further
work. Despite relatively simple user modeling and adaptation
techniques used in QuizQuide, the system has achieved
a remarkable impact on student learning and performance.
With QuizGuide students have explored more questions,
worked with questions more persistently, and accessed
a larger diversity of questions. This increased participation
resulted in a larger increase of their knowledge at the
end of the course. This material will be also presented
on the nearest AACE E-Learn International Conference
in Washington, DC (Nov. 1-5, 2004).
Speaker Bios
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Sergey Sosnovsky is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in the
Information Science program of the School of Information
Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. He holds a MS degree
in Automated Systems for Information Processing from
the Kazan State Technological University (Kazan, Russia).
His current research interests are in the area of web-based
adaptive educational systems. |
