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Generating Proactive Feedback to Help Students Stay on Track

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2010)

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In a tutoring system based on an exploratory environment, it is also important to provide direct guidance to students. We endowed iList, our linked list tutor, with the ability to generate proactive feedback using a procedural knowledge model automatically constructed from the interaction of previous students with the system. We compared the new version of iList with its predecessors and human tutors. Our evaluation shows that iList is effective in helping students learn.

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology,  

    Davide Fossati

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago,  

    Barbara Di Eugenio & Lin Chen

  3. Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago,  

    Stellan Ohlsson

  4. Department of Computer Science, U.S. Naval Academy,  

    Christopher Brown

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  1. Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Vincent Aleven  & Jack Mostow  & 

  2. School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, 1 Cleveland Street, 2006, Sydney, Australia

    Judy Kay

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Fossati, D., Di Eugenio, B., Ohlsson, S., Brown, C., Chen, L. (2010). Generating Proactive Feedback to Help Students Stay on Track. In: Aleven, V., Kay, J., Mostow, J. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6095. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13437-1_56

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