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Katz, Sandra; Jordan, Pamela; Litman, Diane – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
The natural-language tutorial dialogue system that the authors are developing will allow them to focus on the nature of interactivity during tutoring as a malleable factor. Specifically, it will serve as a research platform for studies that manipulate the frequency and types of verbal alignment processes that take place during tutoring, such as…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Physics, Logical Thinking, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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Katz, Sandra; Albacete, Patricia L. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
For some time, it has been clear that students who are tutored generally learn more than students who experience classroom instruction (e.g., Bloom, 1984). Much research has been devoted to identifying features of tutorial dialogue that can explain its effectiveness, so that these features can be simulated in natural-language tutoring systems. One…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Natural Language Processing, Interaction, Rhetorical Theory
Katz, Sandra; Albacete, Patricia L. – Grantee Submission, 2013
For some time, it has been clear that students who are tutored generally learn more than students who experience classroom instruction (e.g., Bloom, 1984). Much research has been devoted to identifying features of tutorial dialogue that can explain its effectiveness, so that these features can be simulated in natural-language tutoring systems. One…
Descriptors: Rhetorical Theory, Tutoring, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Secondary School Science