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User modelling and user-adapted interaction are crucial to the provision of true individualised instruction, which intelligent tutoring systems strive to achieve. This paper presents how user (student) modelling and student adapted instruction is achieved in FITS, an intelligent tutoring system for the fractions domain. Some researchers have begun questioning both the need for detailed student models as well as the pragmatic possibility of building them. The key contributions of this paper are in its attempt to rehabilitate student modelling/adaptive tutoring within ITSs and in FITS's practical use of simple techniques to realise them with seemingly encouraging results; some illustrations are given to demonstrate the latter.
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Nwana, H.S. User modelling and user adapted interaction in an intelligent tutoring system. User Model User-Adap Inter 1, 1–32 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00158950
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