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COACH: A tutor based on active schemas
Author(s) -
Gentner Donald R.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
computational intelligence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.353
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1467-8640
pISSN - 0824-7935
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8640.1986.tb00076.x
Subject(s) - tutor , advice (programming) , computer science , hierarchy , artificial intelligence , human–computer interaction , simple (philosophy) , intelligent tutoring system , natural language processing , programming language , philosophy , epistemology , economics , market economy
The Coach system, a computer simulation of a human tutor, was constructed with the goal of obtaining a better understanding of how a tutor interprets the student's behavior, diagnoses difficulties, and gives advice. Coach gives advice to a student who is learning a simple computer programming language. Its intelligence is based on a hierarchy of active schemas that represent the tutor's general concepts and on more specific information represented in a semantic network. The coordination of conceptually guided and data‐driven processing enables the Coach system to interpret student behavior, recognize errors, and give advice to the student.