{"pk":31713,"title":"The Use of Hints as a Tutorial Tactic","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Hints are a useful and common pedagogical tactic,\nparticularly in one-on-one tutoring sessions. Hints\ncan serve: (1) to activate otherwise inert knowledge\nmaking possible its recall, or (2) to stimulate the\ngeneration of inferences required to complete a task\nusing knowledge thought to be available to the\nstudent. W e report on the analysis of one-on-one\ntutoring sessions conducted by two tutors using a\ncomputer system to capture the dialogue. Hints\neither expUcitly convey information to the student or\nthey point to information presumed to be available\nto the student. W e have identified at least 10\ndifferent forms of hints used by our tutors. T h e two\ntutors differ in the total n u m b e r of hints they\ngenerate and in the prevalence of hints of different types. Our results are being applied to the design\nof an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) with a natural\nlanguage interface.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Submitted Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9x92v40r","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Gregory","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Hume","name_suffix":"","institution":"Illinois Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Allen","middle_name":"A.","last_name":"Rovic","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rush Medical College","department":""},{"first_name":"Joel","middle_name":"A.","last_name":"Michael","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rush Medical College","department":""},{"first_name":"Martha","middle_name":"W.","last_name":"Evens","name_suffix":"","institution":"Illinois Institute of Technology","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1993-01-02T02:00:00+08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31713/galley/22781/download/"}]}