Building Cognitive Tutors with Programming by
Demonstration
Matsuda, N., Cohen, W. W., & Koedinger, K. R.
Abstract: The aim of this study is to incorporate the technique of
programming by demonstration (PBD) into an authoring tool for Cognitive
Tutors. The primary motivation of using PBD is to facilitate the authoring
of Cognitive Tutors by educators, rather than AI programmers. That is,
instead of asking authors to build a cognitive model representing a task to
be taught, a machine-learning agent – called the Simulated Student –
observes the author performing the target task and induces production rules
that replicate the author’s performance. FOIL is used to learn conditions
appearing in the production rules. An evaluation in an example domain of
algebra equation solving shows that observing 10 problems solved in 44
steps induced 9 correct and 1 wrong production rules. Two of the correctly
induced rules were overly general hence produced redundant solutions.
Matsuda, N., Cohen, W. W., & Koedinger, K. R. (2005). Building Cognitive
Tutors with Programming by Demonstration. In S. Kramer & B. Pfahringer
(Eds.), Technical report: TUM-I0510 (Proceedings of the International
Conference on Inductive Logic Programming) (pp. 41-46): Institut fur
Informatik, Technische Universitat Munchen.
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