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Successful Use of an Expert System to Teach Diagnostic Reasoning for Antibody Identification

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A previously reported study indicated that, when used by an instructor as a tool to assist with tutoring in a class laboratory setting, use of the Transfusion Medicine Tutor (TMT) resulted in improvements in antibody identification performance of 87–93% (p<.001). Based on input from teachers requesting that TMT be designed for use without the presence of an instructor, a new study on the use of TMT without instructor assistance found that performance improved by 64–66% (p<.001). Finally, based on the results of these two studies, TMT was mailed to 7 sites for beta-testing. In exchange for a free copy of the kit, the instructors (and their students) were asked to fill out questionnaires. Results of these questionnaires are summarized.

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  1. Cognitive Systems Engineering Laboratory, The Ohio State University, 210 Baker Systems, 1971 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210-1271

    Philip J. Smith, Jodi Heinz Obradovich, Stephanie A. Guerlain, Sally Rudmann, Patricia Strohm, Jack W. Smith, John Svirbely & Larry Sachs

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  1. Air Force Research Laboratory, 1880 Carswell Avenue, Lackland, AFB, TX, 78236-5507, USA

    Barry P. Goettl  & Valerie J. Shute  & 

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Smith, P.J. et al. (1998). Successful Use of an Expert System to Teach Diagnostic Reasoning for Antibody Identification. In: Goettl, B.P., Halff, H.M., Redfield, C.L., Shute, V.J. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1452. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-68716-5_41

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