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The Design and Development of Adaptive Teaching System Based on IRT 　　Abstract. By analyzing the online teaching system and IRT related theories, this paper proposes an adaptive teaching system based on Internet. Considering that the contents for students to learn in the traditional online teaching system are mostly fixed, this on-line adaptive teaching system keeps pace with individuals’ learning levels and abilities. By utilizing this system the process of adaptive E-learning can be really realized and the learning efficiency can be greatly improved. 　　Key words: adaptive teaching system; teaching system; IRT 　　I. Introduction 　　In recent years, with the development and popularity of network technology, especially the development of the internet, the utilization of resources is converted into a service model based on Internet/Web rather than a traditional one. Therefore most universities and colleges in China have already used computer information technology and network technology to manage students’ scores. It is basically considered that the online teaching system can meet the needs of teaching and learning and it can also give students more learning autonomy because the resources, learning styles, learning places and learning time are completely open to them. Learners can choose the contents they need to learn so that the learning efficiency can be improved for their passive learning will be replaced by the active learning in the system. The teaching style is gradually changed from the traditional “teacher-center”, “class-center” style to “students-center”, “self-teaching center.” However, in modern time, most on-line teaching systems only use computers as a teaching tool to guide all the students to learn the same contents. In this way, individual students’ learning strengths and weaknesses are almost negelected. Therefore, the utilization of on-line teaching systems should put forward different teaching strategies for individual learners and guide the