Causal Models in the Acquisition and Instruction of Programming Skills

Abstract

This report summarizes progress made on the Graphical Instruction in LISP (GIL) intelligent tutoring system and the Graphical LISP Exploratory Environment (GLEE) discovery system for instructing programming skills. We describe the status of these computer systems and the experiments investigating the role of explanations in learning, in addition to the use of graphical representations in problem solving. We also describe the BATBook problem solving environment for the study of analogies in programming, as well as our studies of effective human tutors.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA242899

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