A framework for representing tutorial discourse

Published 23 August 1987

Beverly Park Woolf, Tom Murray

Citations21

TL;DR

These techniques are being implemented in a structure that dynamically reasons about the discourse, a student's response, and the tutor's move, which is flexible, domain-independent, and designed to be rebuilt.

Abstract

We set forth general techniques for managing discourse in an intelligent tutor. These techniques are being implemented in a structure that dynamically reasons about the discourse, a student&apos;s response, and the tutor&apos;s move. The structure is flexible, domainindependent, and designed to be rebuilt- decision points and machine actions are modifiable through a visual editor. We discuss this formal reasoning structure and its application in an intelligent tutor. I. Tutorial Discourse We have built a process model for tutorial discourse that provides custom-tailored feedback to students in the form of examples, analogies, and simulations. The processing model views discourse as navigation through a set of possible

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