{"pk":30491,"title":"Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Scientific Inquiry Skills","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We describe the initial prototypes of several Intelligent tutoring systems\ndesigned to build students' scientific Inquiry skills. These Inquiry skills are\ntaught In the context of acquiring knowledge of principles from a mlcroworld\nthat models a specific domain. We have Implemented microworlds for\nmicroeconomics, electricity, and light refraction. All of the systems are highly\ninteractive; students can pose questions, conduct experiments by manipulating\ndomain specific factors, and record results. Using protocol studies of expert\nand non-expert learners using these microworlds we identify important inquiry\nstrategies. W e have represented these strategies formally, allowing the\nmlcroworld to detect effective and ineffective Inquiry strategies. W e conclude\nwith a description of a partially implemented 'inquiry coach*. This coach will\nbe incorporated into the microworlds and teach the Inquiry strategies in the\ncontext of the specific mlcroworld domain knowledge.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Presented Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0115j0ds","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Valerie","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shute","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pittsburgh","department":""},{"first_name":"Jeffrey","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bonar","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pittsburgh","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1986-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30491/galley/20340/download/"}]}