Method and system for computer-assisted collaboration, self-correction and peer assessment in education

摘要

A method and system for computer-assisted collaboration, self-correction and peer assessment in education is provided. The method provides students with the opportunity to learn from their mistakes through inductive self-correction, such as would be provided by one-on-one teaching, without requiring a large investment of time from a teacher by using a computer algorithm to provide self-correction hints. Both human teachers and computer algorithms mark sections of the student's response to an educational activity as requiring improvement, and set constraints that the improved work should satisfy. Another algorithm then provides hints which lead the student through a process of improving their response until it meets the given constraints. Practical measures allowing for students to act as teachers for each other through peer assessment are also provided.