Knowledge Spaces: Applications in Education

Jean-Claude Falmagne (Editor), Dietrich Albert (Editor), Christopher Doble (Editor), David Eppstein (Editor), and Xiangen Hu (Editor)

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The book describes up-to-date applications and relevant theoretical results. These applications come from various places, but the most important one, numerically speaking, is the internet based educational system ALEKS. The ALEKS system is bilingual English-Spanish and covers all of mathematics, from third grade to the end of high school, and chemistry. It is also widely used in higher education because US students are often poorly prepared when they reach the university level. The chapter by Taagepera and Arasasingham deals with the application of knowledge spaces, independent of ALEKS, to the teaching of college chemistry. The four chapters by Albert and his collaborators strive to give cognitive interpretations to the combinatoric structures obtained and used by the ALEKS system. The contribution by Eppstein is technical and develops means of searching the knowledge structure efficiently.

  • ISBN13 9783642434419
  • Publish Date 16 July 2015 (first published 1 August 1999)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country DE
  • Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
  • Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
  • Edition Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 354
  • Language English