Intelligent Tutoring Systems

1. Tutoring and Authoring Tools

   1. DNA — Uncorking the Bottleneck in Knowledge Elicitation and Organization

      • Valerie J. Shute, Lisa A. Torreano, Ross E. Willis

      Pages 146-155

   2. Evaluating Subject Matter Experts’ Learning and Use of an ITS Authoring Tool

      • Brenda M. Wenzel, Mary T. Dirnberger, Pat Y. Hsieh, Tom J. Chudanov, Henry M. Halff

      Pages 156-165

   3. Component-Based Construction of a Science Learning Space

      • Kenneth R. Koedinger, Daniel D. Suthers, Kenneth D. Forbus

      Pages 166-175

2. Collaborative Learning

   1. ‘Do It Yourself’ Student Models for Collaborative Student Modelling and Peer Interaction

      • Susan Bull

      Pages 176-185

   2. Promoting Effective Peer Interaction in an Intelligent Collaborative Learning System

      • Amy Soller, Bradley Goodman, Frank Linton, Robert Gaimari

      Pages 186-195

   3. Using Induction to Generate Feedback in Simulation Based Discovery Learning Environments

      • Koen Veermans, Wouter R. Van Joolingen

      Pages 196-205

   4. An Interactive Graphical Tool for Efficient Cooperative Task Acquisition Based on Monaco-T Model

      • Serge Guepfu Tadié, Jean-Yves Rossignol, Claude Frasson, Bernard Lefebvre

      Pages 206-215

   5. Learning in the Workplace: Initial Requirements of a Lessons Learned Centred Corporate Memory

      • Leila Alem

      Pages 216-223

3. Knowledge Structure and Representation

   1. An ITS for Dutch Punctuation

      • Anders Bouwer

      Pages 224-233

   2. Cognitive Task Analysis in Service of Intelligent Tutoring System Design: A Case Study in Statistics

      • Marsha C. Lovett

      Pages 234-243

   3. Diagrammatic Reasoning for Geometry ITS to Teach Auxiliary Line Construction Problems

      • Noboru Matsuda, Toshio Okamoto

      Pages 244-253

   4. Providing Feedback to Equation Entries in an Intelligent Tutoring System for Physics

      • Abigail S. Gertner

      Pages 254-263

   5. Using Automatic Methods for Structuring Conceptual Knowledge in Intelligent Learning Environments

      • Baltasar Fernandez-Manjon, Juan Cigarran, Antonio Navarro, Alfredo Fernandez-Valmayor

      Pages 264-273

   6. Two-Phase Updating of Student Models Based on Dynamic Belief Networks

      • Jim Reye

      Pages 274-283

4. Teaching and Learning Strategies

   1. Teaching and Learning with Intelligent Agents: Actors

      • Thierry Mengelle, Charles De Léan, Claude Frasson

      Pages 284-293

   2. Self-organized Goal-Oriented Tutoring in Adaptive Hypermedia Environments

      • Elmar Schwarz

      Pages 294-303

   3. Ecolab: Exploring the Construction of a Learning Assistant

      • Rosemary Luckin

      Pages 304-313

   4. Information Types and Cognitive Principles in Program Comprehension: Towards Adaptable Support for Novice Visual Programmers

      • Judith Good, Paul Brna

      Pages 314-323

   5. A Domain Theory Extension of a Student Modeling System for Pascal Programming

      • Rhodora L. Reyes

      Pages 324-333

5. Applications of ITS

   1. The Foundations and Architecture of Autotutor

      • Peter Wiemer-Hastings, Arthur C. Graesser, Derek Harter, Tutoring Research Group

      Pages 334-343

The first International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) was held ten years ago in Montreal (ITS ’88). It was so well received by the international community that the organizers decided to do it again in Montreal four years later, in 1992, and then again in 1996. ITS ’98 differs from the previous ones in that this is the first time the conference has been held outside of Montreal, and it’s only been two years (not four) since the last one. One interesting aspect of the ITS conferences is that they are not explicitly bound to some organization (e.g., IEEE or AACE). Rather, the founder of these conferences, Claude Frasson, started them as a means to congregate researchers actively involved in the ITS field and provide a forum for presentation and debate of the most currently challenging issues. Thus the unifying theme is science. This year’s “hot topics” differ from those in the earlier ITS conferences as they reflect ever changing trends in ITS research. A few of the issues being examined at ITS ’98 include: Web based tutoring systems, deploying ITS in the real world, tutoring and authoring tools, architectures, and knowledge structure and representation.

• Authoring Tools
• Collaborative Learning
• Learning Agents
• User Interfaces
• agents
• design
• interfaces
• knowledge
• knowledge-based systems
• learning
• modeling
• structured analysis
• user interface

• Air Force Research Laboratory, Lackland, AFB, USA

  Barry P. Goettl, Valerie J. Shute

• Mei Technology Corporation, San Antonio, USA

  Henry M. Halff

• Computer Science Department, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, USA

  Carol L. Redfield

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