In an effort to expand our use of interactive tutorials this sharesession demonstrates the ability of a computer tutorial to diagnose a student's problems with economic content and the various mathematical formulations for understanding that content.
Conventional assessment tends to rely on banks of questions in a category.
This is adequate for an explicit skills test and certainly makes the multimedia author's life easier. It also, however, presents a problem. Without this knowledge how can an author assess the direction to send the student in a computer tutorial. The answer is that you can't. Even if it were practical, you can't constantly hammer students with skills tests because they would resist the barrage.