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Cognitve Tutors: Conceptual Architecture and Efficiency

This article reviews the development of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) by focusing on the analysis of Cognitive Tutor (CT) application, relevant theoretical principles and effects of their use in formal education. The aim of this analysis was to examine the key building blocks of cognitive tutors and describe the way this software enhances the improvement of educational process. Important theoretical aspects of ACT-R theory and other relevant conceptual elements of Cognitive Tutors such as model-tracing mechanism along with parallel scrutinizing the efficiency of these theories and principles in the form of cognitive tutors are discussed in this paper. In this paper the results of relevant experimental studies in which the efficiency of cognitive tutors were tested after their implementation in the formal curriculum had been analyzed. The results were compared with the ones collected in the traditional way of teaching. It was shown that the use of cognitive tutors in formal education in comparison with traditional (group) way of teaching leads to a higher level of achievement and better understanding of the subject matter.

 

Key words: Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS),Cognitive Tutor (CT), ACT-R theory, Model Tracing.

 

ISSN: 2335-0628, Publication date: June 2014, COGNITIVE TUTORS: CONCEPTUAL ARCHITECTURE AND EFFICIENCY.pdf