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Article: An intelligent tutoring system.
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- T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education)
- Article date:
- August 1, 1988
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An Intelligent Tutoring System
The course description would catch the eye of any undergraduate: "Essentially no lectures. Class attendance required only one every two weeks. Learn on your own time. Schedule quizzes when you feel ready." The self-paced LISP programming course, offered as part of a research project in Carnegie-Mellon's psychology department, attracts about 150 students a year. But the bet news is that the course can almost guarantee success. In the most recent term, for example, students averaged 84 percent on quizzes and exams.
Of course, self-paced courses are not uncommon. What is unusual about this one is that each student is ...