An automatized case-based cognitive skills assessment approach

This paper describes a proposed automatized case-based cognitive skills assessment system. Unlike most currently available computer-based assessment systems that offer support only for simple assessment tasks, this system supports domain independent case-based assessment of cognitive skills or performance. Automatic feedback and performance evaluation functions of the system are based on extracting relationships and knowledge from a database of available cases and offer support for two types of assessment tasks: case solving, and case knowledge explicitation through construction of a decision tree classifier. The proposed system is described in terms of supported assessment tasks and underlying functions.