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Peer reviewedFrederiksen, Carl; Donin, Janet – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1999
A model of expert tutors' knowledge of applied statistics was used to create a web-based computer coach that emulates human tutoring. Cognitive assessments are obtained from records of students' actions as, with the computer tutor's help, they learn to apply components of procedural knowledge required to solve problems. Learning is evaluated by…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Databases, Higher Education, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Direct linkSong, Ki-Sang; Hu, Xiangen; Olney, Andrew; Graesser, Arthur C. – Computers and Education, 2004
Whereas existing learning environments on the Web lack high level interactivity, we have developed a human tutor-like tutorial conversation system for the Web that enhances educational courseware through mixed-initiative dialog with natural language processing. The conversational tutoring agent is composed of an animated tutor, a Latent Semantic…
Descriptors: Courseware, Web Based Instruction, Distance Education, Natural Language Processing
