An Intelligent Tutoring System for Exploring Principles of Economics Introduction
Valerie J. Shute, Robert A. Glaser · 2012
The intelligent tutoring system we discuss in this chapter provides an environment for discovering principles in a field of knowledge. It was designed to achieve this by enhancing students&s; inductive inquiry skills using the specific subject-matter knowledge of elementary economics for exploring the laws of supply and demand. Inductive inquiry skills in this context refers to the students&s; effectiveness in collecting, organizing, and understanding data, concepts, and relationships in a new domain. This environment uses both discovery learning and more directive approaches: when appropriate, the students are free to explore the domain under study, extracting facts, and organizing principles as they work. When needed, the system can take charge and direct the student in the activities that are most likely to explicate the topic under study.