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ERIC Number: EJ569614
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8312
How Tutors Model Students: A Study of Personal Constructs in Adaptive Tutoring.
Derry, Sharon J.; Potts, Michael K.
American Educational Research Journal, v35 n1 p65-99 Spr 1998
Studied five tutors' personal constructs about their students, as identified by repertory grid interviews and interpreted by cluster analysis. All tutors judged and classified students in similarly defined terms of motivation and intellectual ability. Implications for programming computer-based tutors are discussed. (Author/MAK)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Cluster Analysis, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Student Evaluation, Student Motivation, Tutoring, Tutors
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Note: Research funding provided by the Office of Naval Research, Cognitive and Neural Science and Technology Division, Contract No. N00014-93-0310. An abbreviated and earlier version of the paper was presented in the Proceedings of the International Conference on the Learning Sciences (Chicago, IL, 1996).