[net.ai] AI Work in ED

pbb@creare.uucp (pbb) (08/02/85)

			AI Work in ED at Creare


	 The following describes ongoing work at Creare (KREE-`ARE-EE) in
	 the field of AI in education and ends with a call for
	 consultant help.

	 We at Creare are writing a phase II proposal for the design of
	 an Expert System which will be used for discovering and
	 describing scientific giftedness in students, primarily in the
	 Junior High age group.

	 The Expert System will try to detect the presence of
	 giftedness by matching computer administered test results
	 against knowledge based "feature models".  We will develop a
	 set of knowledge bases to be used in the adaptive testing
	 environment where the selection of questions and the
	 interpretation of answers are dynamically compared to a set of
	 rule based models of gifted scientific thinking.  The
	 administration of questions will be controlled by another
	 knowledge base which has the goal of efficiently determining
	 which model best conforms to the testing results.  

	 These models of giftedness do not really exist yet, and we are
	 not aware of any "experts" currently in this field.  We hope
	 that we can develop expertise in this area as our models are
	 augmented and refined.  We are working with education and
	 testing specialists to achieve this goal.

	 We are currently looking for help with the overall design of
	 the the proposed Expert System.  Experienced knowledge-base
	 system designers are being sought to help review our design
	 and to become part of the project should Creare be awarded the
	 phase II grant.

	 Anyone who might be interested and qualified, particularly
	 those reasonably close to New Hampshire, should contact:

					Phil Bowman
					Creare, Inc.
					Box 71
					Hanover, NH   03755
					(603) 643-3800
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