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 dartvax!creare!pbb