Yes, I was thinking of the computer versions of the SAT and GRE where the question you are asked next depends upon your prior answers rather than a set linear order. As I understand it, the procedure is supposed to allow the test taker to show better their "true" that might be over or underestimated on the basis of any given question. But certainly Ann Brown's notion of dynamic assessment is another example.
The EPIC algorithms would operate on a massive processing premise. By comparing results across countless learners, it would presumably have the capability of providing learners with just what they need, when they need it. Is that good teaching?
Don Cunningham
Indiana University
"Whatever you are, be a good one" - A. Lincoln
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From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Cole
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 10:44 PM
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Don-- I am, like many, overwhelmed, but where did this come from:
Adaptive testing is another
example of an artificial intelligence that tries to move people into a
zone of maximum response.
"Adaptive testing" is restricted to computer based testing??
mike
On 12/20/06, David Preiss <davidpreiss@uc.cl> wrote:
>
> Don
> Could we reframe your thoughts as the question whether is it really
> relevant than the more competent partner in a ZOPED be a human person?
> David
>
> On Dec 20, 2006, at 10:31 PM, Cunningham, Donald James wrote:
>
> > No one picked up on this and I should probably just drop it but the
> > continued discussion on ZOPED prompts me to ask, could a computer
> > algorithm be a "more knowledgeable" partner? Adaptive testing is
> > another
> > example of an artificial intelligence that tries to move people into a
> > zone of maximum response. If the vision in EPIC 2015 were actualized,
> > might not the algorithm be a sensei, showing us the way forward? I
> > understand that the notion of _forward_ is problematic, but is that
> > not
> > also true of a human sensei......or any teacher? And why should the
> > goal
> > in a zoped be the ability to act independently? Most of the things
> > in my
> > life that have expanded my capabilities are things I have come to rely
> > on and are now a part of me. I can't imagine how I ever wrote anything
> > of value when I wrote in long hand, had a poor (now nearly blind
> > thanks
> > to me) secretary type it up, correct, edit, repeat, and so forth.
> > Here I
> > link with Donna's contribution where she mentions natural born
> > cyborgs.
> > Can anyone doubt that within my lifetime (and I'm OLD) that things
> > like
> > MP3's and cell phones will be available as surgical implants?
> >
> > Mind you, this all scares the beejeezes out of me..........djc
> >
> > Don Cunningham
> > Indiana University
> >
> > "Whatever you are, be a good one" - A. Lincoln
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu]
> > On Behalf Of Cunningham, Donald James
> > Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 10:05 PM
> > To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> > Subject: [xmca] Evolving personalized instructional construct?
> >
> > I sometimes wonder if the future of education is parallel to the
> > future
> > proposed for the news media in the flash movie EPIC 2005 (there is
> > also
> > an earlier version EPIC 2004). Available here:
> >
> >
> >
> > http://epic.makingithappen.co.uk/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Don Cunningham
> >
> > Indiana University
> >
> >
> >
> > "Whatever you are, be a good one" - A. Lincoln
> >
> >
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