Exam Notes

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Exam Notes

• AILE 2004/5

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COURSE MATERIAL can be divided intoCore,
Background and Peripheral
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Course Material Divided into..

• 1. CORE ESSENTIAL material
• (necessary to know and understand and be able to
  critically evaluate this to pass)
• 2. USEFUL BACKGROUND material
• (which should help improve and will be useful in
  more general questions, or those where you need
  to provide examples) - the more background you
  have the more options you will have in your
  question choice and answers.
• 3. OTHER PERIPHERAL material
• (of wider interest)

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Classify CORE material as

• content of my lectures
• (see current slide summaries on the course web
  page)
• core systems (see below).

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Background Material

• materials listed as Background reading on the
  course web page
• other material covered for assignments
• material on Cognitive Tutors from practical
  sessions
• additional systems (see below)

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Peripheral Material

• materials listed under resources,
• references from the lectures and
• any other reading

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B. SYSTEMS you should know about ......
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i. CORE CLASSIC SYSTEMS

• You should know about these classic systems from
  reference to them in lectures
• GUIDON (Clancey)
• SOPHIE I/II (Brown, Burton and DeKleer)
• WEST (Burton and Brown)
• BUGGY/DEBUGGY/IDEBUGGY (Burton, Brown)
• I will make copies of papers on these available

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ii. CORE MORE RECENT SYSTEMS

• Assume you know about some (at least two) of
  these in detail (i.e. knowing a couple is
  essential knowing more is good background).
• 1. ANDES (VanLehn, K., Weinstein, A., Conati,
  C., Gertner, A)
• 2. STEVE ( W.L. Johnson, J.W. Rickel)
• 3. ADELE (Shaw, E., Ganeshan, R., Johnson, W.L.)
• 4. AUTOTUTOR (Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C.,
  Wiemer-Hastings, P.)
• 5. GEOMETRY EXPLANATION TUTOR (Aleven, V.,
  Popescu, O., Koedinger, K.R.)

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iii. Background

• Other systems we've looked at that it would be
  useful to know something about
• ARTCHECK (Sentance)
• BEETLE (Moore et al)
• INTERMODELLER (Conlon)
• CONCEPTION (Conlon)
• RIDES (Munro)
• WHY (Stevens and Collins)
• QUEST (White and Frediksen)
• WUSOR (Goldstein)
• SCHOLAR (Carbonell)
• STEAMER (Hollan and Hutchins)
• MENO-TUTOR (Woolf and McDonald)

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THE FORMAT OF THE EXAM
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Format

• The format is similar to past Artificial
  Intelligence and Education (MSc/UG4) year papers.
  
• There will be a choice of 3 questions (some may
  have an either/or part).
• You do any 2 questions

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Style of Questions

• will usually be a Comparison of Approaches or
  Design or Evaluation
• may involve Specific Issues or Specific
  Techniques or Specific Systems (see above) or
  Specific Task
• Could be a combination of these

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e.g.1. Design Problem

• design of all or part of system
• (if latter, still need some idea of what it is
  embedded in)
• in relation to known systems or in relation to
  particular approaches or focussing on particular
  features of the problem.

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Other Examples

• e.g.2. Define, exemplify and evaluate different
  approaches to some issue.
• e.g.3. Describe and compare some feature or
  approach taken in several different systems.
• A further option may be an Essay-Type Question,
  which may be answered in a number of ways and
  should bring in wider knowledge.

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MarkingIn all questions higher marks will be
awarded for discussion and evaluation of material
rather than simple regurgitation of information.
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CREDIT given for

• detail
• reference to relevant literature and research
• reference to systems
• use of examples
• critical comparisons
• discussion of strengths and limitations
• justification of conclusions