Computer assisted training system for interview-based information gathering and assessment

A method of computer-assisted training of interview-based information gathering and assessment, the system comprising:

• defining a training scenario including a scene defining a physical context of the scenario;
• a set of one or more witnesses who may be interviewed to obtain clues as to a particular subject of the training scenario;
• and instructional content defining subject matter to be learned by the student;
• presenting information of the training scenario to a student using a Graphical User Interface (GUI);
• processing student input using an evaluation engine to generate evaluation comments;
• processing the evaluation comments to generate student feedback;
• and
• presenting the student feedback to the student via the GUI;
• wherein the predetermined instructional content comprises any one or more of:
• a predetermined line of questions to be posed by the student to elicit clues relevant to the particular subject of the training scenario,
• preferred questioning techniques to be employed by the student;
• and
• a predetermined line of reasoning to be employed by the student to deduce characteristics of the particular subject.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing software instructions for execution by a processor of a computer, the software instructions implementing a method of computer-assisted training of interview-based information gathering and assessment, the system comprising:

• defining a training scenario including a scene defining a physical context of the scenario;
• a set of one or more witnesses who may be interviewed to obtain clues as to a particular subject of the training scenario;
• and instructional content defining subject matter to be learned by the student;
• presenting information of the training scenario to a student using a Graphical User Interface (GUI);
• processing student input using an evaluation engine to generate evaluation comments;
• processing the evaluation comments to generate student feedback;
• and
• presenting the student feedback to the student via the GUI;
• wherein the predetermined instructional content comprises any one or more of:
• a predetermined line of questions to be posed by the student to elicit clues relevant to the particular subject of the training scenario,
• preferred questioning techniques to be employed by the student;
• and
• a predetermined line of reasoning to be employed by the student to deduce characteristics of the particular subject.