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Tutoring the tutors: Supporting effective personal tutoring

Active Learning in Higher Education, 2016
The research into personal tutoring in higher education from a tutor’s perspective suggests that tutors lack training in tutoring and may lack clarity as to the purpose and boundaries of the role. This article explores personal tutors’ perceptions of their confidence and competence in relation to personal tutoring and identifies strategies that might ...
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Write Tutor

2011 IEEE International Conference on Technology for Education, 2011
The article addresses the technical principles of a new interactive Robotic device, called Write Tutor, and gives an overview of its application. In spite of the various measures and efforts taken in terms of improving literacy rate we still have a major section of the population who are not able to read and write.
Chembian Parthiban, Rishikesan Parthiban
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Tutoring for retention

Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education, 2011
Peer tutoring is a simple, low-cost intervention that can be implemented in CS1/2 courses. It is hypothesized that peer tutoring helps students build a sense of community, succeed in course work, and build confidence to take further courses in the major.
Joseph A. Cottam   +2 more
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The trigonometry tutor

2005
This paper describes a tutor which teaches students trigonometric problem solving. We first discuss approaches others have adopted for teaching mathematics and comment on their usefulness in trigonometry. We later present a task analysis of trigonometry, based on an experiment we conducted.
Parvati Rajan   +3 more
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Tutoring and Expert Modules of Intelligent Tutoring Systems

2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education, 2012
Intelligent Tutoring Systems are systems which provide direct customized instruction to students. An Intelligent Tutoring System consists of four modules. This research concentrates on two of the modules, namely, the Tutoring Module and the Expert Module, analyzes tutoring systems which contribute to the design of these modules.
Vyshnavi Malathi Ramesh, N. J. Rao
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E-Tutor

2009
In recent years, there have been extensive discussions in the information system (IS) community on how to best respond to developments in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry. Some of these discussions have focused on the changing skills of IS graduates and have identified the need for graduates to have an integrated ...
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Tutors, Instructions and Helps [PDF]

open access: possible, 1989
The goals of this paper are threefold. First we want to present a review of the literature on Computer assisted Instruction, second we want to discuss the quality of instructions in some texts and human-computer dialogs concerning Computer programming.
Möbus, Claus, Thole, Heinz-Jürgen
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The UNIX Tutor

1992
This paper describes a novel system that provides help to those learning how to use the UNIX operating system. The system, known as the UNIX Tutor, consists of a hypertext browsing component combined with a knowledge-based instructional component. The knowledge-based component monitors the student, records his progress, selects suitable exercises and ...
Huaiqing Wang, Andre Kushniruk
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Effective Tutoring Techniques: A Comparison of Human Tutors and Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Journal of the Learning Sciences, 1992
There has been much debate about instructional strategies for computerized learning environments. Many of the arguments designed to choose between the various philosophies have appealed, at least implicitly, to the behavior of effective human teachers.
Douglas C. Merrill   +3 more
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Ethnic Similarity, Tutor Expertise, and Tutor Satisfaction in Cross-Age Tutoring

American Educational Research Journal, 1989
Path analysis was employed to examine the effects of tutor-tutee ethnic similarity, tutor expertise variables, and perceived goal attainment variables on the satisfaction of college student tutors of disadvantaged elementary school children. Hypotheses were based upon theories of job satisfaction, role modeling, and intragroup conflict, as well as upon
Barbara Fresko, Michael Chen
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