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Is a Dialogue-Based Tutoring System that Emulates Helpful Co-constructed Relations During Human Tutoring Effective?

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Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2015)

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We present an initial field evaluation of Rimac, a natural-language tutoring system which implements decision rules that simulate the highly interactive nature of human tutoring. We compared this rule-driven version of the tutor with a non-rule-driven control in high school physics classes. Although students learned from both versions of the system, the experimental group outperformed the control group. A particularly interesting finding is that the experimental version was especially beneficial for female students.

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  1. Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA

    Patricia Albacete, Pamela Jordan & Sandra Katz

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  1. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Cristina Conati

  2. Computer Science Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

    Neil Heffernan

  3. Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Antonija Mitrovic

  4. E.T.S.I. Informática, Universidad National de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid, Spain

    M. Felisa Verdejo

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Albacete, P., Jordan, P., Katz, S. (2015). Is a Dialogue-Based Tutoring System that Emulates Helpful Co-constructed Relations During Human Tutoring Effective?. In: Conati, C., Heffernan, N., Mitrovic, A., Verdejo, M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9112. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19773-9_1

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