Considering automatic educational validation of computerized educational systems

The evaluation of educational systems is difficult and often subjective. Many computerized educational systems have been proposed, have found their ways into classrooms and are already forming new generations of pupils. However, it is risky to leave the actual validation of these new systems to a trial-and-error technique, especially when the involved target implies humans. In this paper, we propose automatic virtual students for a more unitary and consistent testing of computerized educational systems, as an alternative to the traditional trial-and-error method.