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A Constructivist Model for Redesigning AI Tutors in Mathematics

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This chapter suggests a new approach to designing AI tutors that grew primarily out of results from a study that is reported in greater detail in a paper entitled The development of tutoring capabilities in middle school mathematics teachers (Lesh & Kelly, in press). That study focused on a ten-week project in which real human tutors provided the intelligence behind a computer-based tutoring system. Our goal was to investigate the understandings, assumptions, and procedures that were really used in tutoring by teachers who were at various levels of expertise — and to observe the evolution of these tutoring abilities over time, as tutoring effectiveness gradually improved.

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  1. University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, 02747, North Dartmouth, MA, USA

    Richard Lesh (Professor of Mathematics)

  2. Rutgers University, 08903, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    Anthony E. Kelly (Associate Professor of Education)

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  1. Laboratoire de Structures Discrètes et de Didactique Institut d’ Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble, Université Joseph Fourier Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, BP 53, F-38041, Grenoble cedex 9, France

    Jean-Marie Laborde

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Lesh, R., Kelly, A.E. (1996). A Constructivist Model for Redesigning AI Tutors in Mathematics. In: Laborde, JM. (eds) Intelligent Learning Environments: The Case of Geometry. NATO ASI Series, vol 117. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60927-5_9

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