A Personalized Courseware Recommendation System Based on Fuzzy Item Response Theory

  • Authors:
  • Chih-Ming Chen;Ling-Jiun Duh;Chao-Yu Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • EEE '04 Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE'04)
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

With the rapid growth of computer and Internettechnologies, e-learning has become a major trend in thecomputer assisted teaching and learning field currently. Inpast years, many researchers made efforts in developing e-learningsystems with personalized learning mechanism toassist on-line learning. However, most of them focused onusing learner's behaviors, interests, or habits to providepersonalized e-learning services. These systems usuallyneglected to concern if learner's ability and the difficultyof courseware are matched each other. Generally,recommending an inappropriate courseware might resultin learner's cognitive overhead or disorientation during alearning process. To promote learning efficiency andeffectiveness, this paper presents a personalizedcourseware recommendation system (PCRS) based on theproposed fuzzy item response theory (FIRT), which canrecommend courseware with appropriate difficult level tolearner through learner gives a fuzzy response ofunderstanding percentage for the learned courseware.Experiment results show that applying the proposed fuzzyitem response theory to Web-based learning can achievepersonalized learning and help learners to learn moreeffectively and efficiently.