The Disciple Learning Agent Shell and a Disciple Test Generation Agent
Gheorghe D. Tecuci, Harry N. Keeling, Tomasz Dybala, Kathryn Wright, David Webster · 1998
The Disciple Learning Agent Shell is a tool for developing intelligent agents where an expert teaches the agent how to perform domain-specific tasks in a way that resembles the way the expert would teach an apprentice, by giving the agent examples and explanations as well as by supervising and correcting its behavior. Disciple can be used by educators to build educational agents that will assist them in various ways. Such an educational agent that was built with Disciple generates history tests for middle school students, assisting the teacher in the assessment of students ’ understanding and use of higher-order thinking skills. The agent can also provide intelligent feedback to the student in the form of hints, answer and explanations. The test generation agent and the process of building it are presented in (Tecuci and Keeling, 1998). We propose to demonstrate both the Disciple shell and the test generation agent. 1. Disciple Learning Agent Shell Disciple is an apprenticeship, multistrategy learning approach for developing intelligent agents where an expert teaches the agent how to perform domain-specific tasks in a way that resembles the way the expert would teach an apprentice, by giving the agent examples and explanations as