The Application of Cognitive Diagnosis to the Quantitative Analysis of Simple Electrical Circuits

The problem of diagnosing performance errors has been of interest to both educationalists and artificial intelligence researchers for many years. Multicolumn subtraction has been a popular domain in which to experiment with the diagnosis of errors. Ohlsson has proposed an approach termed “cognitive diagnosis” which uses a form of heuristic search to find plausible sequences of actions that lead from a multicolumn subtraction task to a known solution.