Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRiMS), Ottawa, Canada (July 2013)
We have created a tutoring architecture, D2P (Declarative to Procedural), based on ACT-R’s theory of knowledge and learning for declarative and procedural memory. D2P also draws on general theories of leaarning and a recent review by Kim, Ritter, and Koubek (in press). D2P provides multimedia instruction pages followed by questions, video, and/or simulations to test and proceduralise the declarative knowledge. It is implemented in XML, XML-based tools, Java, and COTS tools. We have created the two D2P tutors. We have evaluated one, and it has a 1.48 effect size of learning how much to lead. We have found that modern tools help create a tutoring system; creating a tutoring architecture requires more than just the system (such as manuals and example systems); and the next steps are to test the theory of learning and use a cognitive architecture-based knowledge to make the system adaptive.
1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
2 Department of Computer Science, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
3 Charles River Analytics
4 Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida
5 Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
For More Information
To learn more or request a copy of a paper (if available), contact Peter Weyhrauch.
(Please include your name, address, organization, and the paper reference. Requests without this information will not be honored.)
