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We describe a portable coaching environment used within a domain-independent inquiry-learning infrastructure. This coach reasons about a student’s knowledge and offers pertinent, domain-specific feedback. It promotes good inquiry behavior by critiquing the student’s hypotheses and supporting data and relationships among propositions. Four inquiry tutors in separate disciplines have been developed that use embedded expert knowledge bases and reusable domain-independent rules. We describe the functionality of the coach within an art history domain, discuss the implementation of the coach, and elaborate on the options given to domain authors for customization.
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Dragon, T., Woolf, B.P., Marshall, D., Murray, T. (2006). Coaching Within a Domain Independent Inquiry Environment. In: Ikeda, M., Ashley, K.D., Chan, TW. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4053. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11774303_15
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