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Collaborative dialogue with a learning companion as a source of information on student reasoning

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This report focuses on a problem within the area of Intelligent Tutoring Systems; that of analysing student's reasoning (student diagnosis). A novel approach to collecting information for this analysis, complementary to traditional student modelling techniques, is presented. This technique is based on using a Learning Companion, a computer based agent, as a collaboration partner to the student. In the dialogue between the student and the Learning Companion, information on their problem-solving process is revealed. This information would then be extracted and used for student modelling purposes. Analysis of the proposed solution is commenced in a small experiment and an explorative implementation described here.

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Ragnemalm, E.L. (1996). Collaborative dialogue with a learning companion as a source of information on student reasoning. In: Frasson, C., Gauthier, G., Lesgold, A. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1086. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61327-7_165

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