The student module forms a framework for identifying a student’s current state of understanding of the subject domain. The knowledge that describes the student’s current state of mind is stored in a student model.
McCalla and Greer (1991) suggests that in order to make any learning environment adaptable to individual learners it is essential to implement a student model within the system. The student module should permit the system to store relevant knowledge about the student and to use this stored knowledge to adapt the instructional content of the system to the student’s needs.
In order to identify a student’s needs a number of student modelling architectures have been devised.
Authored by Serengul Smith
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serengul1@mdx.ac.uk
School of Computing Science Middlesex University
Revised: September 1998