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REDEEM is an ITS authoring environment that creates simple ITSs from existing domain material. In this paper, we report on an exploratory study which examined how authors used the REDEEM tools to create ITSs that matched their views on instruction. Four authors were asked to describe a class of children learning primary mathematics and then use REDEEM tools to create ITSs that they thought appropriate for these students. The results of the study showed that although all the authors tended to analyze the class in the same way, they had very different approaches to how they should be taught. We report on the inter-author and intra-author differences in the number and composition of teaching strategies and the application of these strategies to individual children. We conclude that the REDEEM environment can cater for different instructional goals.
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Ainsworth, S., Underwood, J., Grimshaw, S. (2000). Using an ITS Authoring Tool to Explore Educators’ Use of Instructional Strategies. In: Gauthier, G., Frasson, C., VanLehn, K. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1839. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45108-0_22
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