Design of an Educational Support System for Self-Learning

An educational support system for self-learning of a pupil is proposed in this paper. The features of the proposed system are that 1. appropriate questions which depend on the ability level of the pupil are provided by using a fuzzy scheme and 2. learning situation and weak points of the pupil are given by employing a principal component analysis (PCA). Therefore, different from conventional support systems, the proposed system enables the teacher to obtain analytical data for giving suitable advice about study. As one of the simplest examples, the proposed system for arithmetic training is realized by using Visual Basic. The experimental results show that the proposed system can provide appropriate questions depending on the ability level of pupil.