Developing Knowledgebase for Educational Diagnostics

An expert system is software that acts like a human expert on a particular subject area. Expert systems are often used to advice people in situations where a human expert is unavailable. When some child in school is showing some unusual difficulty in learning, remembering, or using material that is taught, the child’s teachers may feel it is necessary to undertake an educational diagnosis. Educational diagnosis is the detection of such unusual behavior like learning difficulty, the determination of the nature and its remediation. It is a complex task that should be taken care by qualified personnel using defined methodologies, in some circumstances, the task can be made easier if the diagnostician is guided and assisted by a computer. This paper presents some of the aspect of educational diagnostics with some representation of certain rules and knowledge in this area.