Authoring Example-based Tutors for Procedural Tasks

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2015-01-01
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Blessing, Stephen
Aleven, Vincent
Gilbert, Stephen
Heffernan, Neil
Matsuda, Noboru
Mitrovic, Antonija
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Psychology
The Department of Psychology may prepare students with a liberal study, or for work in academia or professional education for law or health-services. Graduates will be able to apply the scientific method to human behavior and mental processes, as well as have ample knowledge of psychological theory and method.
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The Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering teaches the design, analysis, and improvement of the systems and processes in manufacturing, consulting, and service industries by application of the principles of engineering. The Department of General Engineering was formed in 1929. In 1956 its name changed to Department of Industrial Engineering. In 1989 its name changed to the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering.
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Researchers who have worked on authoring systems for intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) have examined how examples may form the basis for authoring. In this chapter, we describe several such systems, consider their commonalities and differences, and reflect on the merit of such an approach. It is not surprising perhaps that several tutor developers have explored how examples can be used in the authoring process. In a broader context, educators and researchers have long known the power of examples in learning new material. Students can gather much information by poring over a worked example, applying what they learn to novel problems. Often these worked examples prove more powerful than direct instruction in the domain. For example, Reed and Bolstad (1991) found that students learning solely by worked examples exhibited much greater learning than those learning instruction based on procedures. By extension then, since tutor authoring can be considered to be teaching a tabula rasa tutor, tutor authoring by use of examples may be as powerful as directly programming the instruction, while being easier to do.

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This chapter is published as Blessing, Stephen B., Vincent Aleven, Stephen B. Gilbert, Neil T. Heffernan, Noboru Matsuda, and Antonija Mitrovic. "Authoring Example-based Tutors for Procedural Tasks." Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Volume 3 – Authoring Tools and Expert Modeling Techniques. Robert A. Sottilare, Arthur C. Graesser, Xiangen Hu, and Keith Brawner, eds. United States Army Research Laboratory, 2015, pages 71-93.

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