OBJECTIVE: The objective of this research was to build an intelligent tutoring system
capable of carrying on a natural language dialogue with a student who is solving a problem …

One-on-One Tutoring by Humans and Computers articulates the CIRCSIM-Tutor project, an
attempt to develop a computer tutor that generates a natural language dialogue with a …

Symbolization is the ability to translate a real world situation into the language of algebra.
We believe that symbolization is the single most important skill students learn in high school …

CIRCSlM-Tutor version 2, a dialogne-based intelligent tutoring system (ITS), is nearly five
years old. It conducts a conversation with a student to help the student learn to solve a class …

Ellen Rose seeks to initiate a much-needed discussion about what reflection is and should
be. The word crops up repeatedly in the discourse of teaching and learning, but its meaning …

Self-explanation is an effective metacognitive strategy, as a number of cognitive science
studies have shown. In a previous study we showed that self-explanation can be supported …

Abstract Following Computer Aided Instruction systems, 2nd generation tutors are Model-
Tracing Tutors (MTTs)(Anderson & Pelletier, 1991) which are intelligent tutoring systems that …

When we negotiate, the arguments uttered to persuade the opponent are not the result of an
isolated analysis, but of an integral view of the problem that we want to agree about. Before …

We are engaged in a research project to create a tutorial dialogue system that helps
students to explain the reasons behind their problem-solving actions, in order to help them …

This paper describes an application of APE (the Atlas Planning Engine), an integrated
planning and execution system at the heart of the Atlas dialogue management system. APE …