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Experience shows that testing students’ understanding of new concepts immediately after they have been introduced considerably improves the learning process. In this work understanding of a concept is assumed to take place if a student can provide reasonably correct answers to questions requiring application this concept. A possible solution to the problem of how to determine whether students actually understand a concept is to give them tests. Such tests, being a part of an intelligent system, provide inconsistent information to intelligent agents, facilitating the tests evaluation process. This happens because the degree of a student’s understanding varies a lot depending on factors like time and the way questions are formulated. Since classical logic fails to draw conclusions in the presence of inconsistencies we propose application of paraconsistent logic.
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Encheva, S., Tumin, S., Solesvik, M.Z. (2007). Application of Paraconsistent Logic in an Intelligent Tutoring System. In: Luo, Y. (eds) Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering. CDVE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4674. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74780-2_51
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