ANATOM-TUTOR is another intelligent tutoring system which integrates an educational hypertext. Just as for ISIS-TUTOR, there are three modes of operation for the system. In this case, they are question mode, which interrogates the student, browsing mode, which allows self directed access to the domain knowledge, and hypertext mode, where presentation is guided.
In contrast to ISIS-TUTOR, where all information is gathered during the main interaction, users of ANATOM-TUTOR undergo a brief enrolment procedure in which their current knowledge is assessed. At this stage, only key concepts are covered and stereotype information is applied to classify the student. The student’s answers are matched against sets of stereotypical answers and the student is thereby allocated to a particular stereotype. This information is recorded in a rule based student model which is consulted by the tutoring module (the didactic module) to adapt its presentation. This model is updated as the student gives answers to questions posed in question mode. Navigational and presentational adaptation are both features of the system and take place on the basis of details recorded in the student model.
Authored by Serengul Smith
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serengul1@mdx.ac.uk
School of Computing Science Middlesex University
Revised: September 1998