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Wombat: An intelligent educational system to encourage externalisation and reflection on decision processes

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Computer Assisted Learning (ICCAL 1990)

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Abstract

An educational requirement, that of encouraging the development of decision making skills (with particular reference to selection between alternatives) is identified and discussed. The results of a protocol study in which subjects were asked to make a decision of this type, are reported. These results, as well as information taken from the decision making literature, are used as a base for defining the requirements of an Intelligent Educational System which seeks to encourage externalisation and reflection on decision processes and on the current decision. The architecture of the system is outlined.

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  1. Centre for Information Technology in Education, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, MK7 6AA, Milton Keynes, U. K.

    Ann Blandford

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Blandford, A. (1990). Wombat: An intelligent educational system to encourage externalisation and reflection on decision processes. In: Norrie, D.H., Six, HW. (eds) Computer Assisted Learning. ICCAL 1990. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 438. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0020894

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