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T-MITOCAR (Text-Model Inspection Trace of Concepts and Relations)

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Description

An automated computer-based assessment tool developed by Lehmann et al. that converts learners’ natural-language mental-model descriptions into concept-relation graphs and compares them with an expert reference model.

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  • T-MITOCAR as an automated model-based assessment tool for knowledge integration: T-MITOCAR (Text-Model Inspection Trace of Concepts and Relations) is an automated computer-based diagnostic tool that uses natural language expressions as input data to generate graph-based representations of learners' mental models. It measures structural and semantic similarities of verbally externalized mental models compared to a reference (expert) model using measures such as GAMMA (structural density) and BSM (balanced semantic matching). The tool relies on "the dependence of syntax and semantics within natural language" and works with a comparably small amount of text (350 words+). (Lehmann et al. (2019))

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Key Sources

  • Lehmann, T., Pirnay-Dummer, P., & Schmidt-Borcherding, F. (2019). Fostering integrated mental models of different professional knowledge domains: instructional approaches and model-based analyses. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-019-09704-0
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title T-MITOCAR (Text-Model Inspection Trace of Concepts and Relations)
description An automated computer-based assessment tool developed by Lehmann et al.
status review
product_kind assessment
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