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Towards the theory-guided design of help systems for programming and modelling tasks

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 1992)

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This paper describes an approach to the design of online help for programming tasks and modelling tasks, based on a theoretical framework of problem solving and learning. The framework leads to several design principles which are important to the problem of when and how to supply help information to a learner who is constructing a solution to a given problem. We will describe two example domains where we apply these design principles: The ABSYNT problem solving monitor supports learners with help and proposals for functional programming. The PETRI-HELP system currently under development is intended to support the learning of modelling with Petri nets.

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  1. Dept. of Computational Science Unit on Tutoring and Learning Systems, University of Oldenburg, D-W2900, Oldenburg, Germany

    Claus Möbus, Knut Pitschke & Olaf Schröder

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Möbus, C., Pitschke, K., Schröder, O. (1992). Towards the theory-guided design of help systems for programming and modelling tasks. In: Frasson, C., Gauthier, G., McCalla, G.I. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 608. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55606-0_37

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