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Supporting Students in the Analysis of Case Studies for Professional Ethics Education

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2012)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 7315))

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Analyzing case studies in a professional ethics course can be quite challenging for students. To help, we have developed a system called Umka that supports students in this analysis by: (i) directly critiquing the arguments of a student; and (ii) supporting collaboration among multiple students. Umka achieves this support through the interaction of a well-structured interface and the use of latent semantic analysis (LSA). We conducted an experiment, which demonstrated that this cross-interaction of the interface and LSA could be a promising way to ”diagnose” a student’s argument even without full natural processing.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

    Mayya Sharipova & Gordon McCalla

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  1. Mayya Sharipova
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  1. University of Montpellier & CNRS LIRMM, 161 rue Ada, 34095, Montpellier, France

    Stefano A. Cerri

  2. NASA and Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Human Centered Computing - Intelligent Systems Division, 94035, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    William J. Clancey

  3. Department of Applied Informatics and Multimedia, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, School of Applied Technology, Stavromenos, P.O.Box 1939, 71004, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    Giorgos Papadourakis

  4. Neoanalysis Ltd., Marni 56, 10437, Athens, Greece

    Kitty Panourgia

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Sharipova, M., McCalla, G. (2012). Supporting Students in the Analysis of Case Studies for Professional Ethics Education. In: Cerri, S.A., Clancey, W.J., Papadourakis, G., Panourgia, K. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7315. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30950-2_106

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