“Forbus, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science, and his team have developed a new solution called “Sketch Worksheets,” a software equivalent of pencil and paper worksheets commonly found in classrooms. The difference? The software can also provide on-the-spot feedback by analyzing student sketches and then comparing them to the instructor’s sketches.
An instructor might ask students to draw the chambers of the heart, for example. If a student misplaces an atrium, then he or she is immediately alerted to the mistake by the Sketch Worksheet.
Supported by Northwestern’s Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC), the research was recently published in the journal Topics in Cognitive Science. Forbus was the paper’s first and corresponding author.”
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