From: Jonathan Smith <jonathan.w.smith@...>
Date: 2003-02-20T01:51:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Evaluation

"Levels of knowledge" -- yes

"There does seem to be some sort of inheritance relationship, in that 
each level of knowledge depends on its more basic levels." -- yes, thus 
an OOPS.

"I don't understand how you would use this in Ruby." -- or vice versa, 
how I could use Ruby to develop levels of knowledge?

"Using them as goals for a learning machine" -- there's an interesting 
thought!

"would be domain specific" -- I don't understand, is this a limitation, 
could you say more? I may have to Google more about boundaries...

"What is the problem that you are trying to solve" -- I was toying with 
the idea of an email summarizer. Your questioning got me to thinking, 
since Ruby is currently more popular in Japan, about a distance learning 
course in Ruby.

"What work could the classes do?" -- Pay no attention; these are silly 
pipe dreams.


Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Jonathan Smith wrote:
> 
> 
>>For example, are there classes corresponding to the major headings? Are
>>there expressions for the verbs?
>>
>>Verb examples that represent intellectual activity on each level are
>>listed here.
>>
>>    # Knowledge: arrange, define, duplicate, label, list, memorize,
>>name, order, recognize, relate, recall, repeat, reproduce state
> 
>         [others elided]
> 
> A quick look with Google suggests that this taxonomy describes
> levels of knowledge as might be tested in an academic test or exam.
> There does seem to be some sort of inheritance relationship, in that
> each level of knowledge depends on its more basic levels.  However,
> I don't understand how you would use this in Ruby.  What work could
> the classes do?  Generating academic test data would be very domain
> specific. Using them as goals for a learning machine would be domain
> specific, too.  What is the problem that you are trying to solve by
> incorporating this taxonomy into a Ruby program?
> 
> 
>>Jonathan Smith wrote:
>>
>>>I wonder if there is any value to comparing Ruby's capabilities with
>>>skills identified by Bloom's Taxonomy, or is this too much of a paradigm
>>>shift?
>>>
>>
>         Hugh
>