SIETTE: Intelligent Evaluation System using Tests for TeleEducation

This workshop is included in the TREE project, subsided by the LEONARDO program of the European Union, whose finality is the development of an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS), accessible via World Wide Web, which will help in the classification and identification of different European vegetable species. An evaluation system using adaptive testing is under development to be used by the ITS diagnostic module. The testing generation system has a complete set of tools that allows students self-assessment with accuracy based in his proficiency level and helps teachers in test development and design as well as to identify students with problems creating learning profiles. This system is provided with a temporary student model. This model allows using the system as an independent tool over the WWW (SIETTE system), or as part of the diagnostic module in any ITS which want to give feedback to the students or estimate their initial proficiency level in any subject (TREE module). Our ITS uses a Knowledge Base structured by curriculums. The goal is to join the dynamic nature of computer adaptive testing with a temporary student model and the advantages that offer the WWW as a learning tool and therefore as an evaluation method.