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Interpreting an intelligent tutor's algorithmic task: A role for apprenticeship as a model for instructional design

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The interpretive processes required to understand the context and goals of an algorithmic task are illustrated in the use of an intelligent instructional system developed to train soldiers to monitor a computerized missile's system automatic identification of aircraft. The problems students had in understanding the identification task were addressed in INCOFT, a simulation-based intelligent instructional system that depends, in part, on human instructors to convey the task framework. Supported by recent advances in the cognitive science of instruction, the concept ofapprenticeship provides a model for the student-machine as well as the student-instructor interactions observed in the use of INCOFT. The system's instantiation of apprenticeship illustrates an alternative to conventional tutorial-based design of intelligent instructional systems.

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Newman, D. Interpreting an intelligent tutor's algorithmic task: A role for apprenticeship as a model for instructional design. AI & Soc 5, 93–109 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01891716

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