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Modelling the Instructor in a Web-Based Authoring Tool for Algebra-Related ITSs

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This paper describes the development of a web-based authoring tool for Intelligent Tutoring Systems and focuses on its instructor modelling capabilities. The tool is called WEAR and aims to be useful to teachers and students of domains that make use of algebraic equations. Specifically, the tool provides assistance to human teachers while they are constructing exercises and it then monitors the students while they are solving the exercises and provides appropriate feedback. The instructor modelling mechanism renders the system adaptable to the specific needs and interests of each individual user (instructor), concerning the construction of new exercises and the retrieval of existing ones.

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, 80, Karaoli and Dimitriou St., Piraeus, 185 34, Greece

    Maria Virvou & Maria Moundridou

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  1. Département d’informatique, Université du Québec á Montréal, C.P. 8888, succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, Canada, H3C 3P8

    Gilles Gauthier

  2. Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, Canada, H3C 3J7

    Claude Frasson

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

    Kurt VanLehn

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Virvou, M., Moundridou, M. (2000). Modelling the Instructor in a Web-Based Authoring Tool for Algebra-Related ITSs. 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_67

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