Coach: A Schema-Based Tutor.

Abstract

The Coach system, a computer simulation of a human tutor, was constructed with the goal of obtaining a better understanding about how a tutor interprets the student's behavior, diagnoses difficulties, and gives advice to a student learning a simple computer programming language. Coach is based on a hierarchy of active schemas representing the tutor's general concepts, more specific information represented in a semantic network, and the coordination of data-driven and conceptually-guided processing which enable it to interpret behavior, recognize errors, and give advice. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA080985

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  • Donald R. Gentner

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  • University of California, San Diego

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