An Introduction to Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS)

This slide deck was presented on October 26, 2017 as part of a National Academy of Sciences workshop on the role of digital tutors. This workshop, entitled "The Role of Digital Tutors," "describe[s] the evidence on the efficacy of Digital Tutors, exploring our current knowledge about the capabilities and applicability of this technology for use in day-to-day teaching and learning at all levels." The workshop also discussed "strategies and policies that might be used to implement digital tutoring more widely and to assess its impact at much larger scales."

This presentation was from Panel I: Design, Development, and Effectiveness of Digital Tutors. The following sections are included: Main components of an ITS: Viewed as a regulative loop, Main sources of student performance data, Next 7 slides are examples of step-based tutors' user interfaces, How close are tutors to understanding unconstrained speech, Tutors can understand short answers to their questions, Strong evidence that adaptive assessment is more effective, Strong evidence that mastery learning increases learning, and more.