Application of Socratic dialogue on corrective learning of subtraction

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to construct a previous corrective learning system using the previous Socratic dialogue as a guide to correct mistakes in students' knowledge on the domain of previous subtraction. Since the cause of students' mistaken concepts relates to the formation and evolution of mental models, the correction of mistakes cannot be effective if a teacher relies on simply telling the student the standard solution. Instead, they should make the student consider the mistakes and contradictions they themselves discover in the correction process. The previous Socratic dialogue applies a dialectic method to present questions to the student and lets the student reconsider his or her own thinking. In this research, we shall make an inquiry into the fundamental reasoning principles of the previous Socratic dialogue and use the production rules to express the principles that will be used for the previous learning of subtraction. The effect of previous Socratic dialogue on the learning of subtraction has been evaluated by an educational experiment. The experimental results show that the approach of the previous Socratic dialogue on learning is indeed of great help for students.